| 单词 | blood tax |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood tax blood tax n. figurative a tax paid by the shedding of blood; spec. (a derogatory term for) military conscription. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > compulsory pressing1591 press?1592 impress1603 imprest1610 impressing1641 draft1757 conscription1799 press-ganging1863 blood tax1890 call-up1916 comb1916 1813 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 3 Mar. Yes, sir, the blood tax and the money tax—I have no doubt they will bear them. 1890 H. P. Hughes Philanthropy of God v. 75 France is the mother of Conscription. What has she gained by that blood-tax? 1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 291 They would have paid their blood-tax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Mar. b32/2 The film tells of a band of soldiers sent out by the Xia emperor to collect a ‘blood tax’—that is, male babies who can be raised in the emperor's service—from a remote village. < as lemmas |
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