impost meaning in English
n.
1.税，进口税，关税。
2.〔俚语〕【赛马】强马所负担的重量。
vt.
〔美国〕类分(进口商品，以便征税)。
n.
【建筑】拱墩，拱基。
Examples
- The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises .
国会有权规定并征收税金、关税、捐税和消费税。 - Transient immobilization and starvation add to this impost on the skeletal muscle mass .
暂时的卧床和饥饿更加重了这种骨胳肌的消耗。 - What, then, is bankruptcy, but the most cruel, the most iniquitous, most unequal and disastrous of imposts ?
总破产还不就是最厉害，最不公平，最不合理，带来大灾大难的征税吗？ - Exemption from wharfage dues and any export tax , duty fee , and impost
-免除码头税和任何出口税费 - A payment exacted for a special purpose ; an impost or a levy
税为某一特定目的征收的费用；税或征税