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death duty

遗产税

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death duty


(Brit) (formerly) tax paid on property after the owner's death, now called capital transfer tax (旧时)遗产税(现称资产转让税).
1. Who´s on duty today?
    今天谁值日?

2. When work is a pleasure , life is joy ! When work is duty , life is slavery .(Maxim Gorky , Russian writer )
    工作是一种乐趣时,生活是一种享受!工作是一种义务时,生活则是一种苦役。(俄国作家 高尔基. M.)

3. Whether the remarkable growth of organized camping means the eventual death of the more independent kind is hard to say.
    有组织的露营活动的明显发展是否意味着较独立的自我封闭式露营的最终消失,还很难说。

4. When their father died, they thought it their duty to keep Eric in hiding.
    父亲死后,他们兄弟俩认为有责任继续把埃里克藏起来。

5. When he asked if Mr. Lane lived there, the policeman on duty told him that since his defeat, the ex-Prime Minister had gone abroad.
    当他询问莱恩先生是否住在那里时,值班的警察告诉他这位前首相落选后出国去了。

6. When, about 50 years after Hunter´s death, chloroform was first used in Britain, and, only a few years later, infection was prevented with antiseptics, surgeons could do many more operations.
    亨特去世后约50年,氯仿麻醉剂首次在英国使用,仅仅几年之后,感染问题由于使用消毒剂而得以解决,外科医生们便可以做更多的手术了。

7. When Augustus Octavian became emperor after Caesar´s death, he also named a month for himself — August.
    恺撒死后,当奥古斯都大帝成为帝王的时候,他也用自己的名字奥古斯塔斯(Augustus)命名了一个月份——8月(August)。

8. Is it then not the duty of educational institutions to prepare the way for that revelation?
    那么为这种领悟扫清障碍是否是教育机构的责任呢?

9. The prisoner was condemned to death.
    那个囚犯被判死刑.

10. The strong earthquake left death and destruction behind it.
    强烈的地震留下了死亡和破坏。

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