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).
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。
词源
late Middle English: probably a special use of dialect toll 'drag， pull'.