- 1切除（動詞）／貨物稅（名詞）
Two very different meanings. As a verb (said like EX-size), it means to cut something out completely and remove it — a doctor can excise a tumor, or an editor can excise a boring paragraph from a book. As a noun (said like EX-sighs), an excise, or excise tax, is a tax a government charges on certain goods made or sold inside the country, like alcohol, tobacco, or fuel.
From the word’s history
Tax sense: from Middle Dutch excijs 'tax'; cut-out sense: from French exciser, from Latin excīdō 'to cut out'.
「稅」源自中古荷蘭文 excijs；「切除」來自拉丁文 excīdō「切出」。
組成From Latin 'excidere' — ex- (out) + caedere (to cut).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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excisenoun詞源 1/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
- 1
A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, "excise", A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
exciseverb詞源 1/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
- 1
To impose an excise tax on something.
exciseverb詞源 2/ˈɛkˌsaɪz/
- 1
To cut out; to remove.
- Military censors have excised some details from the photographs for security reasons.
- [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
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