fiscal: [16] Latin fiscus originally denoted a ‘small rush basket’, used for example for keeping olives in. Evidently, though, the main purpose to which it was put was as a purse, for it soon acquired the figurative sense ‘public purse, public revenue’. Hence the adjective fiscālis ‘of the imperial treasury’, which passed into English via French fiscal.
fiscal (adj.)
1560s, "pertaining to public revenue," from Middle French fiscal, from Late Latin fiscalis "of or belonging to the state treasury," from Latin fiscus "state treasury," originally "money bag, purse, basket made of twigs (in which money was kept)," which is of unknown origin. The etymological notion is of the public purse. The general sense of "financial" (1865, American English) was abstracted from phrases fiscal calendar, fiscal year, etc. Related: Fiscally.
雙語例句
1. The party was torn apart by wrangles over fiscal policy.
該黨內部因為在財政政策上爭執(zhí)不休而出現了分裂。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The government brought itself to the brink of fiscal disaster.
政府把自己推向了財政危機的邊緣。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.
增稅是一項重要的財政政策.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. So, how are monetary and fiscal policies used in the United States?
美國貨幣和財政政策到底是怎樣運作的?
來自英漢非文學 - 政府文件
5. Yet there are also problems associated with the use of fiscal policy.