Revenue
['revənjuː] or ['rɛvənu]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.
(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.
(n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
博比編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Income, receipts.
伊夫林整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment
ANT:Outgoings, expenditure, waste, deductions, exhaustion, expense, impoverishment
錄入:米歇尔
解釋/意思:
n. the receipts or rents from any source: return as a revenue of praise: income: the income of a state.—n. Rev′enue-cut′ter an armed vessel employed by custom-house officers in preventing smuggling.—adj. Rev′enued.—ns. Rev′enue-en′sign a distinctive flag authorised in 1798 in United States; Rev′enue-off′icer an officer of the customs or excise; In′land-rev′enue revenue derived from stamps excise income-tax &c.
克林顿編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By means of this system, there is annually levied in Great Britain, upon less than eight millions of people, more than ten millions of revenue. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- But countries which contribute neither revenue nor military force towards the support of the empire, cannot be considered as provinces. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- These are the two sorts of revenue of which the owners have generally most to spare. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His revenue is, in the one case, profit, in the other intereSt. The revenue of a Tartar or Arabian chief consists in profit. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- That of an individual is totally excluded from making any part of his neat revenue, which must consist altogether in his profits. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It includes what are usually two distinct revenues, belonging to two distinct persons, the profits of stock, and the wages of labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- In countries where the public revenues are in farm, the farmers are generally the most opulent people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The revenues arising from both those species of rents were, the greater part of them, paid in kind, in corn, wine, cattle, poultry, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The other revenues of the ecclesiastics of both religions at fifty per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
艾伦整理