引言：

“这世界充满不安 快乐很短暂~”

tax /tæks/

1.

N-VAR 税;税款

Tax is an amount of money that you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services.

No-one enjoys paying tax.

没人喜欢纳税。

2.

VERB 对(人、公司或货物)征税

When a person or company is taxed, they have to pay a part of their income or profits to the government. When goods are taxed, a percentage of their price has to be paid to the government.

Husband and wife are now taxed separately on their incomes.

现在夫妻双方分别按各自的收入纳税。

3.

VERB 使用尽，耗尽(力气、耐心、资源等)

If something taxes your strength, your patience, or your resources, it uses nearly all of them, so that you have great difficulty in carrying out what you are trying to do.

Overcrowding has taxed the city's ability to deal with waste.

人口过多使得城市的垃圾处理能力达到了极限。

The questions did not tax me.

那些问题没有让我费脑筋。

The problem is currently taxing the brains of the nation's experts (= making them think very hard) .

目前这个问题使得全国的专家大伤脑筋。

Thanks for reading~