| 单词 | tax |
| 例句 | tax noun 1.•they have to pay tax on the interest:duty, tariff, excise, customs, dues | levy, toll, impost, tithe, charge, fee. ANT rebate. 2.•a heavy tax on one's attention:burden, load, weight, demand, strain, pressure, stress, drain, imposition.▶verb 1.•they tax foreign companies more harshly:charge (duty on), tithe | formal mulct. 2.•his whining taxed her patience:strain, stretch, overburden, overload, encumber, push too far | overwhelm, try, wear out, exhaust, sap, drain, weary, weaken.WORD LINKS relating to the income received by a government through taxesWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE indiction There can be a sonorous magnificence to our language, episodes of phrasing which yearn to be spoken out loud, mantra-like. I particularly enjoy turning over in my mind, for example, the phrase The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Company. I like imagining what goes on at The Mendocino Triple Junction (it is nothing to do with railways, as it happens, but all to do with geology). And I positively tremble with pleasure when, all too rarely for my money, I am reminded of something called The Constantinopolitan Indiction, a complex formula of 15-year tax cycles introduced in the fourth century and which, though falling out of favor in 1807, would give to the year of the first publication of this thesaurus an indiction of 12. (The formula for getting to this number is complicated indeed.) Indiction has three very distinct meanings: it is an alternative word for a declaration or a proclamation; it is a kind of tax assessment created by the Romans—a concept, in other words, that could well be used in a modern property tax office; and it is a 15-year period, such as that invented by the Emperor Constantine in ad 312. It is also the kind of word that, since it looks so very similar to the very different word indication, I like to use from time to time to keep readers alert and on their feet—and, because of its aforesaid sonorous magnificence, enjoying what they are reading. — SWConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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