| 单词 | a load off one's mind |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(to take) a load off one's mind a. A burden (of affliction, sin, responsibility, etc.); something which weighs down, oppresses, or impedes. Esp. in (to take) a load off one's mind: (to bring someone) relief from anxiety. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun] sorrowOE ail?c1225 scorpion?c1225 dolec1290 angera1325 anguishc1330 cupa1340 aggrievancea1400 discomfortc1405 afflictionc1429 sytec1440 pressurea1500 constraint1509 tenterhook1532 grief1535 annoying1566 troubler1567 griper1573 vexation1588 infliction1590 trouble1591 temptationc1595 load1600 torment1600 wringer1602 sorance1609 inflicting1611 brusha1616 freighta1631 woe-heart1637 ordeala1658 cut-up1782 unpleasure1792 iron maiden1870 mental cruelty1899 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > burdensomeness > a burden burdenc971 chargec1300 packa1325 burnc1375 fardelc1380 weightc1380 carriagea1556 load1600 taxa1628 overpoise1697 dead weight1720 backload1725 millstone1787 tin kettle1796 nightmare-weight1847 ball and chain1855 the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > be relieved of [verb (transitive)] > to relieve one's heart or mind easec1385 lightena1450 unburden1538 unload1575 physic1589 vent1631 (to take) a load off one's mind1851 free1855 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 28 Those that wring vnder the loade of sorrow. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 157 Sharpe Buckingham vnburthens with his tongue, The enuious Load that lyes vpon his heart. 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xiv, in Poems (new ed.) 58 Meekly thou didst resign this earthy load Of Death, call'd Life. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 34 Our Life's a Load. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson Introd. sig. d2v When I consider..of how tedious, and often unintelligible, a load of description it [sc. drawing] would rid them. 1765 O. Goldsmith Traveller (ed. 2) 20 And all that freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. xi. 208 One would be willing to owe [to some people]; while from others a favour..is a load. 1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 190 I bear alane my lade o' care. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 175 So did they give the heir the privilege of laying the load upon the personal estate. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiv, in Writings I. 141 With this thought, a load was lifted from the old man's heart. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. vi. 132 It is a load off one's mind. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 400 His spirit..sank down under the load of public abhorrence. 1857 C. Dickens & W. Collins in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 31/2 It takes a load off my mind to leave her in your charge. 1951 E. Caldwell Episode in Palmetto vii. 136 It's a big load off my mind to hear you say that. < as lemmas |
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