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单词 tax-gatherer
释义 ˈtax-ˌgatherer arch.
A collector of taxes.
[1552Huloet, Taske gatherer, exactor.]1693Dryden Disc. Orig. & Progr. Satire in Ess. (ed. Ker) II. 77 Casaubon..says that Horace, being the son of a tax-gatherer..smells everywhere of the meanness of his birth.1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. (1789) IV. 271 The oppressions of the tax-gatherers..were considered as so severe, that the army once more rose to vindicate their freedom.1826Syd. Smith Let. on Cath. Quest. Wks. 1859 II. 232/1 The tax-gatherer is the most indulgent and liberal of human beings;..and is candidly and impartially oppressive to every description of the Christian world.1904Expositor Mar. 213 Christ..certainly had a taxgatherer for one of his chief disciples.
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