blood tax

短语

词形变化

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别名

blood-tax

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tax paid by bloodshed; especially, a derogatory term for military conscription.

    "France is the mother of Conscription. What has she gained by that blood-tax?"

    "I appeal to the working men of Great Britain..not to be misled by catch-phrases about ‘the liberty of the subject’ and the ridiculous cant about a ‘Blood Tax’!"

    "They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature."