[ héngzhēngbàoliǎn ] (强征捐税, 搜括人民财富) extort excessive taxes and levies; bleed the people white with ruthless taxation [taxes]; extort illegal taxes; extort taxes ruthlessly; levy exorbitant [heavy] taxes; tax and fleece the people; tax the people to the bone
Example Sentences:
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His extortions from the industrious poor have been beyond computation . 他对劳苦人民的横征暴敛无法计算。
2.
The peasantry had stood for overtaxation without the slightest complaint . 以前的横征暴敛，农民都忍下来了，毫无怨言。
3.
The law creates or facilitates monopolies, and monopolies are able to exact a toll from the community . 法律创造了或便利了垄断事业，而垄断事业可以向社会横征暴敛。
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" his successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal splendor . in a few years , however , he will be destroyed , yet not in anger or in battle 20那时，必有一人兴起接续他为王，使横征暴敛的人通行国中的荣美地。这王不多日就必灭亡，却不因忿怒，也不因争战。
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Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom : but within few days he shall be destroyed , neither in anger , nor in battle 但11 : 20那时必有一人兴起接续他为王、使横征暴敛的人、通行国中的荣美地、这王不多日就必灭亡、却不因忿怒、也不因争战。
6.
But , he had oppressed no man , he had imprisoned no man ; he was so far from having harshly exacted payment of his dues , that he had relinquished them of his own will , thrown himself on a world with no favour in it , won his own private place there , and earned his own bread 但他没有压迫过人，没有关押过人。他不但远离了横征暴敛，而且主动放弃了自己那份收入，投入了一个不会偏袒他的世界，在那儿找到了自己的地位，赚来了自己的面包。
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A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour : the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes , incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice , tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate , real and personal , to the crown 方针要介乎过分的宽大与过于苛刻之间。在这个有着不自然的等级制度社会上的不平等不断地或增或减变动不已参差不的社会里，要实行公平一视同仁无可争辩的正义，也就是说，一方面尽可能广泛地采取宽大政策，另一方面又为王国政府锱铢必较地横征暴敛，包括没收动产及不动产。
