toll是什么意思？

toll

英[təʊl] 美[toʊl]

• n. 通行费，伤亡人数，钟声，长途电话费；
• v. 鸣钟，敲钟；

复数：tolls;

过去式：tolled;

过去分词：tolled;

现在分词：tolling;

第三人称单数：tolls;

例句

• After six weeks of uncertainty, the strain was beginning to take its toll. 6 个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。
• The long separations took their toll. 两地分居的日子一长,有时就不免出事.
• Officials say the true toll may never be known, due to rapid burials. 官员称由于急速的海水冲刷,真正的数字也许永远不会知道.
• "It's almost eight o'clock." As if on cue the bell in the chapel began to toll for Matins. “快8点了。”恰好在这时小教堂晨祷的钟声敲响了。
• The daily toll of casualties has dropped off sharply. 每日伤亡人数已经大大减少。
• Customs duty is a toll payable on merchandise imported into the country. 进口关税是商品被进口到国内应付的费用.
• You have to pay a toll to drive on a turnpike. 在收费公路上开车要缴通行税.
• Winter takes its toll on your health. 冬天对健康不利。
• This has taken a great toll on me personally and professionally. 这给我的个人生活和我的工作都造成了严重的不良影响。
• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night. 昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼.

词组

• 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）

英语四级真题

Such incidents take a tremendous toll on our nation's economy and our individual well-being.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• V-ERG
  (缓慢反复地)敲(钟)，鸣(丧钟);(钟)鸣响
  When a bell tolls or when someone tolls it, it rings slowly and repeatedly, often as a sign that someone has died.
  例句
  Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered... 教堂丧钟敲响，黑色的旗帜飘动。 The pilgrims tolled the bell. 朝圣者缓缓敲响了钟。
• N-COUNT
  (桥梁、道路的)通行费
  A toll is a small sum of money that you have to pay in order to use a particular bridge or road.
• N-COUNT
  (公路、桥梁的)收费
  A toll road or toll bridge is a road or bridge where you have to pay in order to use it.
• N-COUNT
  (死亡、事故或灾难的)总数
  A toll is a total number of deaths, accidents, or disasters that occur in a particular period of time.
  例句
  There are fears that the casualty toll may be higher. 有人担心伤亡总数可能会更高。 …the second highest annual murder toll in that city's history. 年谋杀案件总数处于该市历史上的第二高位
• PHRASE
  造成恶果(或不利影响、痛苦等)
  If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering.
  例句
  Winter takes its toll on your health... 冬天对健康不利。 Higher fuel prices took their toll. 燃料提价产生了恶果。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  通行费
  A man collected tolls at the gateway. 一个人在大门口收通行费。
• vt. & vi.
  缓慢敲响
  A remote bell is tolling. 远处的钟声响了。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
  2. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;
  "the cost in human life was enormous""the price of success is hard work""what price glory?"
  3. the sound of a bell being struck;
  "saved by the bell""she heard the distant toll of church bells"
• Verb
  1. ring slowly;
  "For whom the bell tolls"
  2. charge a fee for using;
  "Toll the bridges into New York City"

行业词典

• 法律： 税收；
  金融： 过境税；通过税；捐税；通行税；通行税征收权；征收捐税；