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单词 overburden
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overburden
verb[Toften passive]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈbɜː.dən/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈbɝː.dən/
to make someone or somethingworktoo hard orcarry,contain, ordealwith too much:
使不堪重负；使负担过重；使装载过多
Insurancecompaniesare already overburdenedwithsimilarclaims.保险公司已经被类似的索赔搞得不堪重负。
Now 5,000 newchildrenwill beattendingthe district's already overburdenedschoolsystem.现在5000名新学童将要进入本地区已经超负荷运转的学校系统。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing difficulties for oneself or others
  • ask questions ofsomeone/somethingidiom
  • be a tall orderidiom
  • be asking for troubleidiom
  • beyourown worst enemyidiom
  • catch
  • catchsomeoneout
  • dig
  • make heavy weather ofsomethingidiom
  • pitchforksomeoneintosomething
  • plunge
  • plunge(someone/something)intosomething
  • pull
  • shoot
  • suicidal
  • swamp
  • tall
  • toughness
  • trouble
  • worst
  • wrong-foot
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(Definition ofoverburdenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverburden

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It is possible that the availability of an appropriate palliative care service assists in preventing a feeling of being overburdened.
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However, no attempt was made to constrain vertical frost heave or simulateoverburdenpressures because the intention was to simulate near-surface environments.
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Neither overburdened nor spare, her work strikes the right tenor given this subject's appeal beyond academic circles.
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Indeed, in an area of popular music studies overburdened with authorial interpretations, it is entirely refreshing to hear the accounts of young people themselves.
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Despite the hierarchically institutionalized local finance and the illegal practice of overburdening, the manipulation of such incentives served as a way of motivating local authorities.
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Families could be overburdened with children, or suffer from harvest failure or disruptions to trade.
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The isopleths are not disrupted or truncated by thrusting, as previously suspected, indicating that the heating is not attributable to pre-thrusting stratigraphicoverburden.
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Because of the ministries' underestimation of the amount of overburdening, these efforts were far from eliminating the problem.
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However, it is important not tooverburdenthe trial by the collection of unnecessary data and to make explicit the rationale for the method used.
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The book is consequently not overburdened with detail and written with a view to familiarizing those in authority with the practical importance of mosquito reduction.
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Local governments compete with each other for national grants and privileges, but in the case of overburdening, they have no reason to do so.
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Since there is no central verifying authority involved, there is no concern for overburdening the system as it grows.
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Generally speaking, health visitors are already overburdened and are currently employed mainly in caring for preschool children and their families.
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But it need notoverburdena society through high technology interventions.
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In the mid-1970s, local authorities clearly harbored hostility against the central government's lack of action in the matter of overburdening.
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