Big enough to break my back.

大得我都搬不动了。

" Then I'll not break my back rowing you over, " said the ferryman, decidedly.

“那我就不把你划过去了，”摆渡人斩钉截铁地说。

My son wept as he told me about it. I knew he was honest and sensitive-and I knew that he had been disgraced and humiliated in front of other people. That was the straw that broke my back.

当他告诉我这件事时，我的儿子哭了。我知道他诚实而敏感——我知道他曾在别人面前丢过脸、受过侮辱。那是压垮我的最后一根稻草。