Revenue

(n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income.

(n.) Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise.

(n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.

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• Such colonies, therefore, have been a source of expense, and not of revenue, to their respective mother countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of the sovereign does not, in any part of Europe, arise chiefly from a land tax or land rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of all the inhabitants of the country is necessarily in proportion to the value of the annual produce of their land and labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• By means of this system, there is annually levied in Great Britain, upon less than eight millions of people, more than ten millions of revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But countries which contribute neither revenue nor military force towards the support of the empire, cannot be considered as provinces. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The first is that portion which is reserved for immediate consumption, and of which the characteristic is, that it affords no revenue or profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These are the two sorts of revenue of which the owners have generally most to spare. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His revenue is, in the one case, profit, in the other intereSt. The revenue of a Tartar or Arabian chief consists in profit. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Every tax must finally be paid from some one or other of those three different sources of revenue, or from all of them indifferently. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• That of an individual is totally excluded from making any part of his neat revenue, which must consist altogether in his profits. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It includes what are usually two distinct revenues, belonging to two distinct persons, the profits of stock, and the wages of labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In countries where the public revenues are in farm, the farmers are generally the most opulent people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The revenues arising from both those species of rents were, the greater part of them, paid in kind, in corn, wine, cattle, poultry, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The other revenues of the ecclesiastics of both religions at fifty per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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