收缴

They are collecting customs.

他们正在收缴关税。

Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the waterrate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid.

无偿付能力房客，公然反抗收缴他们八居室要塞水费办事员，尽管他们有什么办法得这种生活所必体，可他们已经继续生存好几个礼拜了。