Imposition

(noun.) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo).

(noun.) an uncalled-for burden; 'he listened but resented the imposition'.

校对:韦恩

• I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such a method was the only alternative to the imposition of dogma as truth, a procedure which reduced mind to the formal act of acquiescing in truth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A disgraceful imposition,' observed the old lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• After the imposition of a tax of this kind, he can get this reasonable profit only by paying less rent to the landlord. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• To his influence is due the imposition of the Benedictine rule upon nearly the whole of Latin monasticism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressmen; the master thought so too, and forbade my paying it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• So great the success, so great the imposition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• However, in spite of exaggerated imposition, I still find we live within our means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Without a favorable culture political schemes are a mere imposition. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The city of Hamburgh {See Memoire concernant les Droites et Impositions en Europe tome i p. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The taboo--the merely negative law--is the emptiest of all the impositions from on top. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Let that infallibility come to be doubted, as in Russia to-day, and natural impulses reassert themselves, the great impositions begin to weaken. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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