Taxation
[tæk'seɪʃ(ə)n] or [tæk'seʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state.
校對:拉里--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
(n.) The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.
(n.) Tax; sum imposed.
(n.) Charge; accusation.
整理:梅
例句/造句/用法:
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.
- But to avoid taxation it must be rendered unfit for drinking by the addition of such unpalatable substances as wood alcohol, pyridin, benzola, sulphuric ether or animal oil. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the taxation of unimproved property happens at the same time to be a splendid weapon against the slum. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Ground-rents seem, in this respect, a more proper subject of peculiar taxation, than even the ordinary rent of land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- War expenditure increased everywhere and called for more and more taxation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Salt is a very ancient and a very universal subject of taxation. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They have been tamed--but at a price, the price of throwing the burthen of taxation upon the voiceless mass of the common people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Syrians are very poor, and yet they are ground down by a system of taxation that would drive any other nation frantic. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Those modes of taxation by stamp duties and by duties upon registration, are of very modern invention. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The French system of taxation seems, in every respect, inferior to the British. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It would come just as much from a radical program of land taxation, factory reform, or trust control. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The wealth and luxury of the higher clergy and the heavy papal taxation were the chief grounds of complaint. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The clergy were to be freed from lay jurisdiction and from taxation, and exemplary cruelties were to be practised upon the heretics. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:玛拉