Question

onerous adj.繁重的 (1) 报酬很好，但常常是很繁重的。(2) 她希望有个固定的职业，不管这个职业多么繁重，多么令人厌倦。(3) 我的日程表总是排得紧紧的，但我喜欢这样。 A near synonym is burdensome. In legal usage, onerous describes a contract or lease that has more obligations than advantages. Onerous derives from Middle English, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerōsus, from onus "burden." In English, an onus is a task or duty that is onerous, or very difficult.

Accepted Answer

英 ['əʊnərəs] 美 ['ɑːnərəs] (1) Overtime work is often onerous, though it is well paid.(2) She desired a fixed occupation-no matter how onerous, how irksome.(3) I've always led an onerous timetable but I like it. If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an onerous one, to say the least. If something is onerous, it is very difficult to deal with or do. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（任务）繁重的，艰巨的，麻烦的 If you describe a task as onerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant.   [FORMAL 正式]...parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child.曾经辛辛苦苦地养育过任性难缠的孩子的父母亲

英语单词	onerous
英美音标	英 ['əʊnərəs] 美 ['ɑːnərəs]
中文释义	adj.繁重的
英语例句	(1) Overtime work is often onerous, though it is well paid. (2) She desired a fixed occupation-no matter how onerous, how irksome. (3) I've always led an onerous timetable but I like it.
中文例句	(1) 报酬很好，但常常是很繁重的。 (2) 她希望有个固定的职业，不管这个职业多么繁重，多么令人厌倦。 (3) 我的日程表总是排得紧紧的，但我喜欢这样。
vocabulary简明	If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an onerous one, to say the least. If something is onerous, it is very difficult to deal with or do.
vocabulary扩展	A near synonym is burdensome. In legal usage, onerous describes a contract or lease that has more obligations than advantages. Onerous derives from Middle English, from Old French onereus, from Latin onerōsus, from onus "burden." In English, an onus is a task or duty that is onerous, or very difficult.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]（任务）繁重的，艰巨的，麻烦的 If you describe a task as onerous, you dislike having to do it because you find it difficult or unpleasant. [FORMAL 正式] ...parents who have had the onerous task of bringing up a very difficult child. 曾经辛辛苦苦地养育过任性难缠的孩子的父母亲

Onerous Task Difficult Homework English Onus 英 əʊnərəs] 美