mountainload

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An excessive amount.
    — It puts strange thoughts into one's head about the mountain-load of government under which people exist in Europe, and suggests the idea that we may be over-governed. Think of the hundred Acts of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the people of England, from cutting each other's throats, or from doing to our neighbour as we would not be done by.

词形变化

mountainloads plural mountain-load alternative

词源

mountain + load
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