Burthen

(noun.) a variant of `burden'.

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• Each long hour was counted, and He suffers was the burthen of all her thoughts. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I felt no burthen, except the internal one of contrary and contending emotions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The White Man was beginning to drop his Burthen in eastern Asia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These are the people that make life a burthen to the tourist. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Experiment, experiment, that is the burthen of Roger Bacon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Before the nineteenth century there were no ships in the world much over 2,000 tons burthen; now there is nothing wonderful about a 50,000-ton liner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You said, I think, that a thousand pounds would suffice entirely to free you from your burthens, and enable you to recover a firm stand? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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