overtax是什么意思

双语用例

• If we continue overtaxing and polluting the environment, our personal well-being will eventually suffer too.

• The state marketing board overtaxed cocoa production over several decades to the point of ruin (or smuggling to neighbouring countries), reinforced by an overvalued currency.

• The reader whose brain gets overtaxed has ample opportunity to savour the seductive - and informative - illustrations.

• To some uncertain extent, negligent net beneficiaries will be overcompensated, while net contributors, who have gained by foresight and hard work rather than by brute good luck, are overtaxed.

• His friend fears the difficult work may overtax his weak brain.

• The dangers of single authorship include the fact that the scale of what is known is so vast that it might overtax one single individual.

• In fact, by avoiding tasks likely to overtax their skills, children would miss out on important opportunities to learn new things.

• At the moment, labour is overtaxed in relation to its much more mobile counterpart, capital.