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- The kings of each city levied tolls on us, but would not suffer us to enter their gates.
每一座城池的国王都向我们征收通行税,却不愿让我们进入城门。 - "The toll tax is increasing day by day and there is no mechanism to check how the toll tax is levied," he said.
高速公路收取的通行费天天都在上涨,而且没有任何机制来检查这些通行费到底是怎么征收的。 - While China imposed 10 per cent duty on imported cars, it levied 25 per cent duty on imported auto parts because of their “essential character” close to a complete vehicle.
中国在对进口整车征收10%关税的同时,对进口汽车零部件征收25%的关税,因为中国认为这些零部件从“本质特征”上已经接近整车。
Levy \Lev"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Levied} (l[e^]v"[i^]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Levying}.]
1. To raise, as a siege. [Obs.] --Holland.
2. 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. --Fuller.
3. To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority;
as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions.
If they do this . . . my ransom, then,
Will soon be levied. --Shak.
4. (Law)
(a) To gather or exact; as, to levy money.
(b) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to
raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a
nuisance, etc. [Obs.] --Cowell. --Blackstone.
(c) To take or seize on execution; to collect by
execution.
{To levy a fine}, to commence and carry on a suit for
assuring the title to lands or tenements. --Blackstone.
{To levy war}, to make or begin war; to take arms for attack;
to attack.