Imposition
[ɪmpə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪmpə'zɪʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo).
(noun.) an uncalled-for burden; 'he listened but resented the imposition'.
校对:韦恩--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
(n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
(n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
(n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
(n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
(n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Imposing.[2]. Constraint, oppression, burden, charge, injunction, levy, tax.[3]. Deception, fraud, trickery, artifice, IMPOSTURE, cheating.
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同义词及反义词：
[See CHEAT]
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娱乐性解释：
n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands—a ceremony common to many ecclesiastical systems but performed with the frankest sincerity by the sect known as Thieves.
录入:费尔普斯
例句:
- I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Such a method was the only alternative to the imposition of dogma as truth, a procedure which reduced mind to the formal act of acquiescing in truth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- A disgraceful imposition,' observed the old lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- After the imposition of a tax of this kind, he can get this reasonable profit only by paying less rent to the landlord. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- To his influence is due the imposition of the Benedictine rule upon nearly the whole of Latin monasticism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressmen; the master thought so too, and forbade my paying it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- So great the success, so great the imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- However, in spite of exaggerated imposition, I still find we live within our means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Without a favorable culture political schemes are a mere imposition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The city of Hamburgh {See Memoire concernant les Droites et Impositions en Europe tome i p. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The taboo--the merely negative law--is the emptiest of all the impositions from on top. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Let that infallibility come to be doubted, as in Russia to-day, and natural impulses reassert themselves, the great impositions begin to weaken. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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