一个普通美国公民的纳税状况:“美国纳税纳死你”

圆明园 · 发表于 2008-1-24 13:51

Post by iyecomela
我说的“你的英语也太那个”，指的正是你对英语的理解力---哪怕你用汉语表达你对英语的理解。
你不能领会？你还不能领会？？你永远不能领会？？？
看来你汉语确实也不太好---准确的说，是思维不太好吧。

对英语的理解力, 一讲的是关系, 或语法, 二讲的是实际用法.
从语法看, 假如他想说直到死, 应该有TILL或UNTILL, 比如till death do us apart.
从实际用法看, to death 几乎都是形容程度.

bj0002 · 发表于 2008-1-24 14:05

I ASKED TWO PERSON, ONE FROM US, THE OTHER FROM TORONTO, THEY BOTH SAID THE SAME THING AS iyecomela's.
"TO DEATH" HAS TO MATCH "FREE": MEANS U EVER NEVER GET RID OF TAXES. “美国纳税纳死你” ,

圆明园 · 发表于 2008-1-24 14:16

here is an article

Are We Being Taxed to Death?
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17872

Governments in the U.S. take approximately 40 percent of the country's total income in taxes. In other words, nearly half of all the income generated each year is sent to governments to spend.

....

the whole ariticle talks about how heavy the taxes are.

s030604 · 发表于 2008-1-24 14:50

Post by bj0002
I ASKED TWO PERSON, ONE FROM US, THE OTHER FROM TORONTO, THEY BOTH SAID THE SAME THING AS iyecomela's.
"TO DEATH" HAS TO MATCH "FREE": MEANS U EVER NEVER GET RID OF TAXES. “美国纳税纳死你” ,

“美国纳税纳死你”可不是IYECOMELA的意思，IYECOMELA是想强调美国纳税时间长，而这句中文翻译的意思明显是强调其程度。所以这个翻译偶是赞同的，所以圆同学也是对的。而偶的搞笑翻译则是人们对这种严厉程度的愤怒：
Originally Posted by s030604
“Welcome to American, Land of the free but Taxed to death ！”

欢迎来到美利坚，自由之热土，纳税去死！

wu808 · 发表于 2008-1-25 02:53

大家都知道, 不管在哪个国家, 纳税都是必须的, 如果没有特殊原因, 必须纳税到死, 甚至死后还有纳税. 所以 "Taxed to death" 只能是强调税重.

MOVINGPET · 发表于 2008-1-25 04:36

本来以为美国好一点，看来都一样。

nightcatmtl · 发表于 2008-2-4 02:00

坚决反美!!!:cool:

一个普通美国公民的纳税状况:“美国纳税纳死你”

iyecomela's understanding is correct