释义 |
burthen(= burden) n. 1.load负担。 △Mer.4.1.95:“Why sweat they underburthens?”为什么让他们在重担之下出汗? △H.VIII.2.3.42: “If your back/ Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,”如果你的脊梁连这样的负担都不肯承受。 △H.VIII.3.1.109(110):“lest at once/The burthen of my sorrows fallupon ye.”要不然我这悲哀的重担就要落到你们的头上了。 △H.VIII. 5.1.70: “God safely quit her of her bur-then,”愿上帝让她平安地解除她的负担。 2. burden,a child in the womb胎儿。 △Com.1.1.54:“A mean woman was delivered / Of such a burthenmale,twins both alike.”一个贫苦的妇人也生下了 一对面貌相同的男性双生子。 3. burden,refrain,tune(歌曲的)叠句,曲调。 △Shr.1.2.68:“wealth is burthen of my wooing dance”,财富才是我求婚之舞的主调,我求婚本来就是为图财。 4. refrain,accompaniment to a song叠句,伴唱。 △As.3.2. 263 (247): “I would sing my song without a bur-then;thou bring’st me out of tune.”我唱歌的时候不要别人伴唱;你缠得我唱走了调。(按:指Celia说话时Rosalind总是不断插话。)
burthen(= burden) vt. charge指控。 △Com.5.1.209:“As this is false he burthens me withal!”他指控我的话全是假的! |