tax: [13] Tax originally denoted ‘a(chǎn)ssess an amount to be levied’; the notion of ‘imposing such a levy’ is a secondary development. The word comes via Old French taxer from Latin taxāre ‘touch, assess, appraise’, a derivative of tangere ‘touch’ (source of English contact, tangible, etc). From taxāre was derived the medieval Latin noun taxa ‘tax, piece of work imposed’, which passed into English via Anglo-Norman tasque as task [13]. => tact, tangent, tangible, task
tax (v.)
c. 1300, "impose a tax on," from Old French taxer "impose a tax" (13c.) and directly from Latin taxare "evaluate, estimate, assess, handle," also "censure, charge," probably a frequentative form of tangere "to touch" (see tangent (adj.)). Sense of "to burden, put a strain on" first recorded early 14c.; that of "censure, reprove" is from 1560s. Its use in Luke ii for Greek apographein "to enter on a list, enroll" is due to Tyndale. Related: Taxed; taxing.
tax (n.)
early 14c., "obligatory contribution levied by a sovereign or government," from Anglo-French tax, Old French taxe, and directly from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxare (see tax (v.)). Related: Taxes. Tax-deduction is from 1942; tax-shelter is attested from 1961.
雙語例句
1. Purchase tax was not payable on goods for export.
出口商品不需要交購買稅。
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2. The federal government hiked the tax on hard liquor.
聯(lián)邦政府提高了烈性酒的稅率。
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3. The tax increase sounded the death knell for the business.
稅賦的增加為這個企業(yè)敲響了喪鐘。
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4. Is a tax increase still out of the question?
增加稅收仍然是不可能的事嗎？
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5. Some people accuse the tax inspectors of bully-boy tactics.