Exemption

(noun.) an act exempting someone; 'he was granted immunity from prosecution'.

(noun.) a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.); 'additional exemptions are allowed for each dependent'.

(noun.) immunity from an obligation or duty.

编辑:米兰达

• It is the exemption from punishment, and not its moderation which is the cause of crime. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mingling with the coward band there assembled, they reviled their admirable leader, and asserted their own superiority and exemption. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Besides, it was given with an engaging air of openness, and of special exemption of the one friend he valued, from his reckless indifference. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Mrs Lammle gave him the look of a decidedly dissatisfied party demanding exemption from the category; but said nothing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The clergy, on the other hand, were now claiming exemption from lay taxation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She had had three weeks of happy exemption from Mr. Elton; and Harriet's mind, she had been willing to hope, had been lately gaining strength. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Led by several of the nobles, it made a clean sweep, in a series of resolutions, of serfdom, privileges, tax exemptions, tithes, feudal courts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The payment having thus become perpetual, the exemptions, in return, for which it was made, naturally became perpetual too. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

录入:莉娜