Tax
[tæks]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government.
(verb.) make a charge against or accuse; 'They taxed him failure to appear in court'.
(verb.) use to the limit; 'you are taxing my patience'.
(verb.) levy a tax on; 'The State taxes alcohol heavily'; 'Clothing is not taxed in our state'.
(verb.) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine).
編輯:普鲁登斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
手打:西格蒙德
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Impost, duty, custom, toll, excise, tribute, assessment, rate, levy.[2]. Demand, burden, charge, requisition.
v. a. [1]. Put a tax upon, assess tribute upon.[2]. Burden, load, task, make demands upon.[3]. Accuse, charge, lay upon.
德洛丽丝校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Duty, rate, impost, assessment, toll, tribute,[See BABBLE]
整理:普雷斯利
解釋/意思:
n. a rate imposed on property or persons for the benefit of the state: anything imposed: a burdensome duty.—v.t. to lay a tax on: to register or enrol for fiscal purposes (Luke ii. 1): to burden: to accuse: to examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.—ns. Taxabil′ity Tax′ableness.—adj. Tax′able capable of being or liable to be taxed—adv. Tax′ably.—ns. Taxā′tion act of taxing; Tax′-cart a light spring-cart; Tax′er.—adj. Tax′free exempt from taxation.—ns. Tax′-gath′erer; Taxim′eter (see Addenda); Tax′ing-mas′ter an officer of a court of law who examines bills of costs; Tax′-pay′er.
編輯:拉维恩
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will succeed in destroying evil influences rising around you. If others pay them, you will be forced to ask aid of friends. If you are unable to pay them, you will be unfortunate in experiments you are making.
法耶手打
例句/造句/用法:
- There were, in fact, but few things which Luttrell did not vote a tax on life, being one of the most dissatisfied men I ever knew. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He considers what the land will cost him, in tax and price together. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This tax, therefore, so far offends against the first of the four maxims above mentioned. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Be it so, said the King; but for thine own sake tax me not with usurpation now. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- 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.
- Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Such taxes, when destined for the maintenance of the state, have some advantages, which may serve in some measure to balance their inconveniency. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Upon the whole, such taxes, therefore, are perhaps as agreeable to the three first of the four general maxims concerning taxation, as any other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- What was the Crown to him except the King's Taxes? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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.
- The property of the rich was taxed or confiscated in order that it should be divided among the poor. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But there was an equally strong desire on the part of ordinary men to be neither taxed nor interfered with in their ordinary pursuits. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A family which exercised great hospitality, would be taxed much more lightly than one who entertained fewer guests. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The interest of money seems, at first sight, a subject equally capable of being taxed directly as the rent of land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Their expense is taxed, by taxing the consumable commodities upon which it is laid out. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Well, but now, Casaubon, such deep studies, classics, mathematics, that kind of thing, are too taxing for a woman--too taxing, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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