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单词 tax
释义
tax
tæks tæks
Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense taxes, present participle taxing, past tense , past participle taxed
1 N-VAR ;税款 Tax is an amount of money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services. ;税款
  • No-one enjoys paying tax.

    没人喜欢纳税。

  • They are calling for large spending cuts and tax increases.

    他们呼吁大幅度削减开支并提高税收。

  • ...a cut in tax on new cars.

    降低新车所缴纳的税款

  • ...a pledge not to raise taxes on people below a certain income.

    对收入低于一定水平的人不提高税收的承诺

  • His decision to return to a form of property tax is the right one.

    他决定恢复征收财产税是正确的。

SYN charge, rate, duty, toll
2 VERB (人、公司或货物)征税 When a person or company is taxed, they have to pay a part of their income or profits to the government. When goods are taxed, a percentage of their price has to be paid to the government. (人、公司或货物)征税 [Also VERB]
  • Husband and wife are now taxed separately on their incomes. [be VERB-ed]

    现在夫妻双方分别按各自的收入纳税。

  • ...the government's commitment to simplifying the way companies are taxed. [be VERB-ed]

    政府简化公司纳税手续的承诺

  • The Bonn government taxes profits of corporations at a rate that is among the highest in Europe. [VERB noun]

    波恩政府对公司所得税的征收税率之高在欧洲处于前列。

SYN charge [formal] , impose a tax on, levy a tax on, rate
3 VERB 使用尽,耗尽(力气、耐心、资源等) If something taxes your strength, your patience, or your resources, it uses nearly all of them, so that you have great difficulty in carrying out what you are trying to do. 使用尽,耗尽(力气、耐心、资源等)
  • Overcrowding has taxed the city's ability to deal with waste. [VERB noun]

    人口过多使得城市的垃圾处理能力达到了极限。

  • These dilemmas would tax the best of statesmen. [VERB noun]

    这些进退两难的局面对一流的政治家也是个考验。

SYN strain, push, stretch, try
4 See also: taxing  council tax  income tax  poll tax  value added tax 
Quotations
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes Benjamin Franklin letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man whose duties make him more or less of a taxing machine. He is entrusted with a certain amount of misery which it is his duty to distribute as fairly as he can Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke speech
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men Edmund Burke On American Taxation
If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only the little people pay taxes Leona Helmsley
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Read my lips: no new taxes George Bush speech during election campaign - later, he raised taxes
Taxation without representation is tyranny James Otis
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin Mark Twain
Income Tax has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf Will Rogers The Illiterate Digest
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