white man's burden

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects.
    — Uncle Sam has found his box of tricks heavy, and is having a whiff before going on with his white man's burden to the end.

词源

From the poem The White Man's Burden (published 1899) by Rudyard Kipling.
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