What does it mean to bear a heavy burden?

Carrying a heavy burden means: a metaphor for taking responsibility or shouldering a heavy responsibility.

The pinyin for carrying the burden is tiāo dàn zi, which comes from Cao Ming's "Riding the Wind and Waves" III: "Kang Bohe once thought that Feng Liping's arranged substitution was inappropriate, but he was eager for someone to carry the burden for him and was willing to do so."

An example of shouldering a heavy burden

1, porters have a heavy burden. Usually, we can't breathe with two large watermelons, and they have to pick three or four large watermelons to put on the side of the burden.

Grandpa seldom goes out of the mountain to go to the market today. Although he didn't carry the burden, it was conspicuous enough to carry a snakeskin bag full of crops on his shoulder.

3. I was just about to give up going home, but I saw the mountain man carrying a heavy burden on his shoulder and singing melodious northern Shaanxi tunes on the first string.

4. A few days ago, I took my children to visit Yangzhou Old Street and found that there were even maltose sellers, and I didn't have to carry the burden, and I opened an elephant-like shop.

5. Friar Sand, in the third impression of the epiphany, Friar Sand always seems to be carrying the burden silently at the end, looking hard and full of enthusiasm.

6. "When the old man saw it, it was the one he lost. What surprised him even more was that it was the young man who helped him carry the burden that day.

7. Look at the burden he picked. Boy, I don't know what this burden is, so I can't say how heavy it is. The big man was carrying it with an iron pole, and suddenly he flashed and shook.