onus
onus 英 [ˈəʊnəs] 美 [ˈoʊnəs]
n. 职责；责任
名词复数:onuss
- Take the noun, onus, as a formal word for responsibility or obligation. If your teacher assigns onus as a vocabulary word, it puts the onus on you to find out what it means.
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- n. 职责；责任
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1. The onus of proof lies with you.
你有责任提供证据。
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2. I took a lot of the onus of life upon myself as well.
我也承担了很多生活的责任。
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3. The onus is on government departments .
政府部门有责任。
- onus (n.) 1640s, from Latin onus "load, burden," figuratively "tax, expense; trouble, difficulty," from PIE *en-es- "burden" (source of Sanskrit anah "cart, wagon"). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722), literally "burden of proving."
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