■ tax

复数 taxes 有时候可以当作是一个不可分的数量整体，成为一个不可数名词。此时它前面可以用 much 和 less 而不用 many 和 fewer。

• How much taxes do you have to pay? 你要缴纳多少税款？（如果说 How many taxes do you have to pay?则可能是“你有多少个税目要缴税？”）
• ... Americans pay less taxes than most of the inhabitants of developed countries. (Robert Lekachman, Center Magazine, Jan. —Feb., 1970)…美国人缴的税，比各发达国家大多数居民要少（less taxes 是税的金额较少，fewer taxes 是税目种类较少）。