heavy tax

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They charge the wine importers a heavy tax.
他们向葡萄酒进口商课以重税。
Each language you "officially" support at a company has a pretty heavy tax -- infrastructure support, documentation, training for devs, code duplication, and other downsides.
在一个公司里，你需要为你“正式”支持的每一种语言付出很大的代价——要提供对基础架构的支持、文档、对开发人员的培训、代码冗余以及其他一些不利因素。
Sweden was one of the first countries to implement a heavy tax on fossil fuels in 1991 and now sources almost half its electricity from renewables.
瑞典是1991年第一批开始对化石燃料征收重税的国家之一。如今该国近一半的电力供应来自可再生能源。

The thing that's really doing the heavy hitting on risk management is really the tax and welfare system.
而税收和福利制度能真正有效地,实现风险管理。
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As our economy continues to recover and demand rebounds, oil prices are almost certain to rise, the equivalent of a heavy tax on our GDP.
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It should also make investing in Japan more attractive for middle-size U.S. companies that find the Japanese market daunting under the current heavy tax, says Mentz.
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Unfortunately, in the lead-up to the euro, countries pursued overly stringent fiscal policies -- in other words, governments have been increasing their citizens' too-heavy tax burdens rather than lightening them.
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