Early in September increased numbers emerge from the woods, the plumage of the male being less brilliant than when we saw it last, as if the family cares of the summer had proved too taxing. For nearly a month longer they hunt incessantly, with much flitting about the leaves and twigs at the ends of branches in the shrubbery and evergreens, for the tiny insects that the warblers must devour by the million during their all too brief visit.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
In a week they were surreptitiously holding hands. In two weeks they could scarcely endure the partings when Bud must start back to San Jose, and were taxing their ingenuity to invent new reasons why Marie must go along. In three weeks they were married, and Marie's mother--a shrewd, shrewish widow--was trying to decide whether she should wash her hands of Marie, or whether it might be well to accept the situation and hope that Bud would prove himself a rising young man.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Laws unfriendly to educational institutions? Laws obstructive of gold production? Discouragement of railway expansion? Laws heavily taxing the intruder and overlooking the Boer? The Uitlander seems to have expected something very different from all that. I do not know why. Nothing different from it was rationally to be expected. A round man cannot be expected to fit a square hole right away.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
It was in the course of this pamphlet that the Mr. Otis spoke so strongly on taxation and representation. "The very act of taxing," said he, "exercised over those who are not represented, appears to me to be depriving them of one of their most essential rights; and, if continued seems to be, in effect, an entire disfranchisement of every civil right. For what one civil right is worth a rush, after a man's property is subject to be taken from him at pleasure, without his consent?"[2]英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
[2] In a further discussion of the prerogatives of the crown Mr. Otis said: "When the Parliament shall think fit to allow the colonists a representation in the House of Commons, the equity of their taxing the colonists will be as clear as their power is, at present, of doing it if they please."英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
Smith, as we have seen, estimated at their full insignificance such flummeries as the coronation of Powhatan, and the foolishness of taxing the energies of the colony to explore the country for gold and chase the phantom of the South Sea. In his discernment and in his conceptions of what is now called "political economy" he was in advance of his age. He was an advocate of "free trade" before the term was invented. In his advice given to the New England plantation in his "Advertisements" he says:英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-3》
I mean, I love my mother, but, my God, a long lunch with her is taxing.美剧 · 《Friends》
You're mad because I fouled you, and you're taxing me in court because of it.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
All right, well, I went through the transcripts from Schakowsky's courtroom, looking for abuses, looking for any mention of taxing lawyers.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》