window tax

常见例句

雙語例句

• In the 17th century, many windows of large houses were walled up to avoid a window tax.
  在17世紀，爲避免交納窗戶稅，大房子的許多窗戶被堵住了。
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• Enacted8) in England in 1696 after the short-lived hearth9) tax on fireplaces, the window tax was based on the number of windows in a house.
  繼短暫推行的對壁爐征收的菸囪稅之後，英國又於1696年制定了窗戶稅，根據每棟房屋窗戶的數量來征稅。
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• Having visited many more rooms than could be supposed to be of any other use than to contribute to the window-tax, and find employment for housemaids, "Now, " said Mrs.
  衆人又看了許多房間．這些房間你想象不出有什麽用場，衹不過是多貢獻些窗戶稅①（譯注：①英國在1851年以前，曾對城鎮房屋的窗戶或透光孔征過稅。），讓女僕們有活可乾罷了。

權威例句

• The result: the return preparation window tax preparers work within this year has shrunk to about eight weeks.
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• The financing machinations are mere window dressing to satisfy German tax authorities.
  FORBES: Teutonic Tinsel
• This is his best window of opportunity to impose a gas tax.
  FORBES: Pessimism's Bull
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