| 词汇 | brunt |
| 释义 | brunt noun[ S ] uk /brʌnt/ us /brʌnt/ the brunt of something the main force of something unpleasant: …的主要压力（或冲力） The infantry has taken/borne the brunt of the missile attacks.步兵在导弹袭击中首当其冲。 Small companies are feeling the full brunt of the recession.小公司饱受经济不景气所带来的压力。 Power and intensity ascendant be (as) solid as a rockidiom beef cast iron clout counterforce grunt invincibility invulnerability juggernaut keenness kick-ass mailed fist richness ripely robustness stridency sturdiness virulence vividness Examples of bruntbrunt The eldest son tried to bear the brunt of these burdens, but it was not long before he had to leave. Nonetheless, outright attacks on government were rare; traders and the uncharitable rich bearing the brunt of the criticism. They were thus willing to soft-pedal the struggle for equal rights, and thereby avoided the brunt of the ideological incompatibility described above. The working classes suffered the heaviest brunt of the economic havoc. My son bore the brunt of my quest for knowledge. As men left rural areas in light of colonial obligations, women assumed a greater burden of production, and bore the brunt of drought and famine. Four depicted older people as objects of ridicule or the brunt of a joke, and two portrayed them as being out of touch. The other 'market' to feel the brunt of deregulation fervour was the labour market. As the occupants of the chateaux fled eastwards, it was immobile occupants of the cottages who bore the brunt. The uninsured are facing the brunt of the hospital industry's billing practices. That response explained that the pickup of visual information by the dorsal system is the brunt of perceptual activity in both humans and animals. The poor still bear the brunt of the world's damages. The brunt of this increase was taken by the municipalities. It bears the brunt of loans, taxes, and outlay all kinds by way of advance. This paper argues that poor countries will in fact bear the brunt of the net damages from climate change. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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