head tax

基本解釋

But when Madam Satrian levy on head tax, we can see how much indignity she had irrigated.
但是當(dāng)撒切爾夫人征收人頭稅時(shí)，看看她激起了多大的民憤。
Note: more than a century before, Canada exclusively collected $500 head tax from every Chinese to land.
注：加拿大一百多年前曾經(jīng)只向登陸的華人收取每人500加元的人頭稅。
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IN ONE of the more shameful episodes of its past, Canada imposed a hefty head tax on all Chinese immigrants in 1885, then banned their entry altogether from 1923 to 1947.
1885年，加拿大開始向所有華人移民征收沉重的人頭稅，后來(lái)又在1923年至1947年間完全禁止華人移民入境，這是該國(guó)歷史上發(fā)生的較不體面的事件之一。

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