corvee
美[kɔː'veɪ] 英[kɔː'veɪ]
n. 劳役；徭役
英英释义
Noun- unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
例句
- Serf-owners ruthlessly exploited serfs through corvee and usury. 农奴主用差役和高利贷对农奴进行残酷的剥削。
- Qing Dynasty officials to send regular patrols along the tree corvee situation. 清代官府常派差役沿路巡察护树情况。
- Incomplete statistics indicate the existence of more than 200 categories of corvee taxes levied by the Gaxag (Tibetan local government). 据不完全统计，仅噶厦(西藏地方政府)征收的差税种类就达200多种。
- The corvee tax system of old Tibet was very cruel. Permanent corvee tax was registered and there were also temporary additional corvee taxes. 旧西藏的差税制度十分残酷，有载入注册籍的永久性差税，还有临时加派的差税。
- The plunder of manpower is even more horrifying. A great many able-bodied men have been press-ganged and the amount of corvee can hardly be calculated. 而人力的掠夺尤足惊人，大批壮丁被捉走服役，支差难以数计。
- The corvee assigned by Gaxag and manorial lords accounted for over 50 percent of the labor of serf households, and could go as high as 70-80 percent. 农奴为噶厦和庄园主支的差，占农奴户劳动量的50%25以上，高者可达70%25至80%25。
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