I press him gently on the reasons for the implosion of his premiership, starting with his attempt to impose a "mining supertax" .
我先从他试图征收“资源附加税”说起，委婉地追问他突然辞职的原因。Lyndon Johnson had Congress levy a Vietnam War surtax lest the growing debt from the war and the Great Society get out of hand.
林顿·约翰逊迫使国会增收越战附加税，导致战争债务上升，“伟大社会”计划失控。The point about VAT, as we have said all along, is that [the cut] will run for a year, so it is too early to judge the effect it has had.
正如我们一直以来所说的那样，削减附加税的政策将会持续一年，所以现在就判断其利弊还为时尚早。In the United States, prices and wages were frozen for a time, and a 10-percent surcharge was imposed on imports.
在美国，物价和工资一度冻结，并对进口物品增收10%的附加税。Messrs Shultz and Dam argue that the import surcharge was intended as "an attention-getter and a bargaining chip" .
舒尔茨和戴姆认为，征收进口附加税是打算“引人注意，作为谈判筹码”。We have reminded all of our European partners of our attachment to the introduction of a tax on financial transactions.
萨科齐说：“我们曾经提醒所有欧洲伙伴，我们要提出对金融业交易的附加税。”We said at the time that Brown's flagship VAT cut would only make things worse and would be an expensive failure.
我们曾说，布朗标志性的削减附加税政策只会帮倒忙，它是一场昂贵的错误。By December they agreed to let the dollar fall (by a trade-weighted average of 6. 5%) and the surcharge was removed.
十二月不到，他们就同意让美元贬值（幅度约是交易额加权平均数的6.5%），附加税也跟着取消。Several US banks have said privately that they, too, are considering absorbing the cost of the tax.
一些美国银行私下里表示，他们也在考虑消化附加税的成本。