levy
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈlɛ.vi/
美 /ˈlɛ.vi/
英文释义
名词 n.
- The act of levying.
- The Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar, valued at elevenpence when the dollar was rated at seven shillings and sixpence.
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The act of levying.; A conscription action.
— 1835-1847, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece A levy of all the men left under sixty.
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The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax paid in money.
— The Irish levies.
- The things or people so levied.; A tax.; A tax in kind.
- The things or people so levied.; Requisitioned supplies.
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The things or people so levied.; A body of conscripts.
— To make up for their losses at the battle they [the professional army of Harold II, Anglo-Saxon King of England] had gathered levies of men from the counties they passed through on their way south. […] Ranged alongside these professionals were the levies: farmers and peasants, for the most part, who had been straggling in from all over the southern counties during the previous few days [before the Battle of Hastings in 1066].
- A shilling.
动词 v.
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To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
— to levy a tax
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To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
— If they do this […] my ransom, then, / Will soon be levied.
- To draft someone into military service.
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To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
— Augustine […] inflamed Ethelbert, king of Kent, to levy his power, and to war against them.
- To wage war.
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To raise, as a siege.
— Albeit hee saw that the siege was levied
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To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
— The new levying or inhancing of Weares Mills
词源
词源 1
From Anglo-Norman leve, from Old French levee, from
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
lever (“to raise”), from Latin lēvāre (“to raise, lift”).
词源 2
Contraction of elevenpence.
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