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词汇 tartan
释义 tartan
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈtɑː.tən/ us /ˈtɑːr.ən/
a pattern of different coloured straight lines crossing each other at 90 degree angles, or a cloth with this pattern: 方格花纹(或图案);格子呢;格子织物
a tartan kilt(苏格兰高地男子穿的)格子呢褶裥短裙
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tartan | American Dictionary


tartan
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtɑr·tən/
a cloth woven in a pattern of different colored straight strips crossing each other at 90 angles, or the pattern itself; plaid:
a tartan kilt

Examples of tartan


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However, tartan taxes are even more unfair if there is no tartan minimum wage to help pay for them.
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Would the tartan tax be levied according to where people live, where they work, or where their company is located?
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I think we have had enough of tartan tales.
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But one of the extraordinary items is for tartan for trousers.
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There is no doubt that a tartan tax would create enormous problems and anomalies.
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The tartan tax would add to the costs of employment and of businesses.
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To cap it all, that parliament would have the power to raise taxes—a special tartan tax.
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That is a mantra as meaningless as the tartan tax.
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Nothing that breathes the heather or wears the tartan has been left outside.
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After the rebellion of 1745 a law was passed forbidding either the wearing of the kilt or the wearing of tartan.
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I thought it better not to disillusion her because she was very taken with the combination of the tartan and the red hair.
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I shall name but a few—the social chapter, the minimum wage and the tartan tax.
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They do not want their tartan to be taken from them, or interfered with in any way.
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Where will it come from if not from the tartan tax?
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I was asked who will pay the tartan tax.
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