intolerable burden/strain/pressure• And one night, I knew that he found himself an intolerable burden, and that in the woods he lost himself.• To accept them all would place an intolerable strain on her health, but she rarely fails to help a charity.• They have created an intolerable burden on people on lowincomes.• It would put intolerable pressure on the limited number of parliamentarylavatories.• Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exertintolerable pressure on the relationship between husband and wife. 1.• Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain, rippedfree from their mountings and crashed to the ground.• Were people put under intolerable pressure to deliver?• The fund's other trustees had left and he was under an intolerable strain, working more than 12 hours a day.
VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITIONVERBS➤be, prove, seem難以忍受;證明難以忍受;似乎無法忍受▸➤become變得難以忍受▸➤make sth使⋯無法忍受◇The constant pain made her life intolerable.長期疼痛使她的生活變得無法忍受。➤consider sth, find sth認為⋯難以忍受◇I find his rudeness intolerable.我覺得他的無禮令人無法容忍。ADVERB➤absolutely, quite (both especially BrE) 絕對/十分無法忍受▸➤increasingly (especially BrE) 越來越難以忍受▸➤almost幾乎無法忍受◇The job placed almost intolerable pressure on her.工作給她帶來的壓力幾乎無法承受。PREPOSITION➤to對⋯來說無法忍受◇The situation had become intolerable to him.對他來說,情況已經變得無法忍受。