brunt
英 [brʌnt]
美 [brʌnt]
n. 锐气；（正面的）冲击；主要的压力
Collins.1 / BNC.13688 / COCA.13686
习惯用语
n.
- bear, take, etc. the brunt of sth
- 承受某事的主要压力；首当其冲
to receive the main force of sth unpleasant - Schools will bear the brunt of cuts in government spending.
政府削减开支，学校将首当其冲受到影响。
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 承受主要压力；首当其冲
Tobear the bruntortake the brunt ofsomething unpleasant means to suffer the main part or force of it.- Young people are bearing the brunt of unemployment...
年轻人首当其冲，面临失业压力。 - A child's head tends to take the brunt of any fall.
孩子摔倒时，头部最容易受伤。
- Young people are bearing the brunt of unemployment...
英英释义
noun
- main force of a blow etc
- bore the brunt of the attack
双语例句
- Government budgets have borne the brunt of the economic crisis as tax revenues have fallen alarmingly and public spending has been raised to limit the damage wrought by the recession.
在经济危机中，政府预算一直首当其冲，因为税收以惊人的速度减少，而公共支出却不断上升，以限制经济衰退造成的损害。 - Recently, some CEOs have borne the brunt of shareholder impatience.
最近，一些CEO们终于耗尽了股东的耐心，被“扫地出门”。 - Debt and equity holders will bear the brunt of it.
债券持有人和股东们将首当其冲。 - A child's head tends to take the brunt of any fall.
孩子摔倒时，头部最容易受伤。 - South Padre Island, Texas escaped the brunt of that storm but still took a pretty big hit.
德克萨斯南帕诸岛逃过了这场热带风暴的正面冲击，但是仍然受到了严重影响。 - There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
世上只有一件东西，能始终经受住生活的冲击：一颗宁静的心。 - If you do not care, and hard, I will bear the brunt, but now can not, and what are not, think you have become a sin.
如果你没人照顾了，再苦再累再难，我都会首当其冲的，可是现在不能，什么都不能，想你都成为一种罪过。 - But for all three, human health will bear the brunt.
但对所有三种危机而言，首当其冲的是人类健康。 - They're the ones bearing the brunt of the recession.
他们是承受了经济衰退冲击的人们。 - I had to bear the brunt of the criticisms.
我不得不承受批评的压力。