| 词汇 | overtax |
| 释义 | overtax verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈtæks/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈtæks/ overtaxverb[T] (MONEY)to demand too much tax from someone or to put too much tax on goods: 对…征税过重，对…课税过多 I've been overtaxed this month.这个月让我缴的税过多了。 Food should not be overtaxed.对食品不应该课税过重。 Taxation amortizable anti-dumping anti-progressive anti-tax at sourcephrase filer financial year fiscal drag fiscal year flat tax regressive regressively road tax sales tax self-assessment taxpayer the taxman tithe top rate unprogressive overtaxverb[T] (DIFFICULTY)to cause to feel tired or confused as a result of doing too much or doing something too difficult: 使负担过重，使超负荷工作;对…要求过高 Remember you've been ill, and don't overtax yourself.记住你在生病，别劳累过度。 This problem is overtaxing my brain.这个问题真是把我难住了。 Tired and making tired all in anti-fatigue at your worstidiom be dead on your feetidiom be fit/ready to dropidiom finish something off fit to dropidiom fragile frazzled gassed haggard knackered shell-shocked sleep-deprived sleepily sleepiness sleepy stonkered strung out zonked overtax | Business Englishovertax verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊvəˈtæks/us TAX to demand too much tax from someone or to put too much tax on goods: "We overtax the poor," the Senator claimed. Food and clothing should not be overtaxed. to make people, a system, a machine, etc. do more than they can do: Filling so many jobs at once would overtax the department. Examples of overtaxovertax If we continue overtaxing and polluting the environment, our personal well-being will eventually suffer too. The state marketing board overtaxed cocoa production over several decades to the point of ruin (or smuggling to neighbouring countries), reinforced by an overvalued currency. The reader whose brain gets overtaxed has ample opportunity to savour the seductive - and informative - illustrations. His friend fears the difficult work may overtax his weak brain. The dangers of single authorship include the fact that the scale of what is known is so vast that it might overtax one single individual. In fact, by avoiding tasks likely to overtax their skills, children would miss out on important opportunities to learn new things. At the moment, labour is overtaxed in relation to its much more mobile counterpart, capital. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Labour was overtaxed and capital undertaxed. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English What is more, we should never overtax employees and consumers, either directly or indirectly, for they make a considerable contribution to growth. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If those are overtaxed, the companies will not grow and expand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, they are overtaxed, but they are stuck with the position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I object to pay another extra halfpenny, because we are overtaxed already to the tune of £4,000,000 a year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe they are still overtaxed, but at least not grossly so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Will he consider taxing profits of £4,000 million when ordinary people are being grossly overtaxed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He first ran up his war chest by overtaxing, and when he had a surplus he set out his pre-election bonanza. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of overtax These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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