Onerous

(a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

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• In addition to scientific discoveries, the manufacture of glass in England received a great impetus by the removal of onerous excise duties which had been imposed on its manufacture. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Another thing she did, and which made traveling an onerous trial for her. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation, no matter how onerous, how irksome. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Oh, they were not onerous: just to sit at the head of his table now and then. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• To them it seemed better to let ill alone and seek some other clime where conditions would be less onerous. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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