横征暴敛 meaning in English
(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
Examples
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - " 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。 - 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。