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- a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions税。
1.1
- in sing. figurative a strain or heavy demand〈喻〉负担; 重负：
a heavy tax on the reader's attention.
读者注意力的一种重负。
with obj.
1
- impose a tax on (someone or something)对…征税：
the income will be taxed at the top rate.
收入将以最高征税标准征税。
1.1
- pay tax on (something, especially a vehicle)交纳（某物, 尤指车辆）税费。
1.2
- figurative make heavy demands on (someone's powers or resources)〈喻〉耗费（某人的力量或资源）：
she knew that the ordeal to come must tax all her strength.
她知道要到来的苦难必定要耗费她所有的力气。
2
- confront (someone) with a fault or wrongdoing指责, 批评：
why are you taxing me with these preposterous allegations?
为什么你用这些荒谬的断言来指责我？
3
- Law examine and assess (the costs of a case)【律】审定（诉讼费用）。
派生词
taxable
adjectivetaxer
noun词源
Middle English （also in the sense 'estimate or determine the amount of a penalty or damages'， surviving in sense 3）： from Old French taxer, from Latin taxare 'to censure， charge， compute'， perhaps from Greek tassein 'fix'.