taxing
 (a.)繁重的,費力的


 taxing
 課稅


 Tax v. t. [imp. & p. p. Taxed p. pr. & vb. n. Taxing.]
 1. To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
    We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride, and folly than we are taxed by government.   --Franklin.
 2. Law To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
 3. To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
    I tax you, you elements, with unkindness.   --Shak.
    Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.   --Dryden.
    Fear not now that men should tax thine honor.   --M. Arnold.

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 taxing
      adj : not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing
            the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I
            only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
            [syn: burdensome, onerous]


 Taxing
    (Luke 2:2; R.V., "enrolment"), "when Cyrenius was governor of
    Syria," is simply a census of the people, or an enrolment of
    them with a view to their taxation. The decree for the enrolment
    was the occasion of Joseph and Mary's going up to Bethlehem. It
    has been argued by some that Cyrenius (q.v.) was governor of
    Cilicia and Syria both at the time of our Lord's birth and some
    years afterwards. This decree for the taxing referred to the
    whole Roman world, and not to Judea alone. (See CENSUS.)