1.人头税
1.an amount of money collected as a tax from every adult citizen of a particular country
1.Laws banning file-sharing are likely to prove as unpopular as the poll tax that helped bring down the Thatcher government.
事实将证明,禁止文件共享的法律很可能会像当年促成撒切尔(Thatcher)政府下台的人头税一样不受欢迎。
2.A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.
像人头税一样,递减税占穷人收入的比例更大。
3.In Mrs Thatcher's case that came with the introduction of the poll tax and a deep economic recession.
对撒切尔夫人而言,这来自于人头税的征收和严重的经济衰退。
4.States cannot charge for IDs required to vote (that would be a de facto poll tax).
各州不能对选举所要求的身份证收费(那实际上可能成为投票税)。
5.Mistreatment by the colonial rulers and collection of a new poll tax increased tensions.
殖民统治的虐待和新的人头税增加了紧张的气氛。
6.The government has buckled, introducing the equivalent of a heavy poll tax on property.
希腊政府迫于压力,引入了。。。。
7.1964-the 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified.
1964年的今天,(美国)第24条修正案--废除联邦选举中须征人头税规定,被批准。
8.More than 20 years after "Mr. Trout" spoke those words, the poll tax was abolished.
在楚特先生说了这些话的20年后,人头税终于被废除了。
9.In subsequent amendments, the ballot was extended to women and to 18-year-olds, and the poll tax abolished.
在后来的修正案中,选举权扩大到妇女和18岁公民,人头税得以废除。
10.Can't pay, won't pay, as we once said of the poll tax.
对其不能表示尊敬,也不会表示尊敬,正如我们曾经谈论人头税一样。