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单词 toll
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toll1

/təʊl/
1
a charge payable for permission to use a particular bridge or road
(桥梁或道路的)通行费:

motorway tolls

高速公路通行费

as modifier a toll bridge.

收费桥梁。

1.1
N. Amer. a charge for a long-distance telephone call
〈北美〉长途电话费。
2
in sing. the number of deaths, casualties, or injuries arising from particular circumstances, such as a natural disaster, conflict, or accident
伤亡人数:

the toll of dead and injured mounted.

死伤人数上升。

2.1
the cost or damage resulting from something
(付出的)代价; (遭受的)损失, 破坏:

the environmental toll of the policy has been high.

这项政策使环境遭受的破坏很大。

with obj.[usu. as noun tolling
charge a toll for the use of (a bridge or road)
收取(桥梁或道路的)通行费:

the report advocates motorway tolling.

该报告主张收取高速公路通行费。

短语

take its toll(或take a heavy toll)

have an adverse effect, especially so as to cause damage, suffering, or death
造成损失(或危害、伤亡):

years of pumping iron have taken their toll on his body.

多年举重使他的身体受到伤害。

词源
Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion 'toll house', from telos 'tax'. Sense 2 (late 19th cent.) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death).

toll2

/təʊl/
no obj.
1
(of a bell) sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement
(钟)缓慢而有规律地鸣响:

the bells of the cathedral began to toll for evening service.

教堂的钟开始敲响, 宣布晚祷礼拜就要开始。

1.1
with obj. cause (a bell) to make such a sound
(缓慢而有规律地)敲(钟)。
1.2
(of a bell) announce or mark (the time, a service, or a person's death)
鸣钟报告(时辰、仪式或死亡):

the bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew.

圣玛丽勒布的钟开始鸣报宵禁。

in sing.
a single ring of a bell
(一记)钟声。
词源
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll 'drag, pull'.
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