| 单词 | toll |
| 释义 | toll toll1 /tohl/, n. 1. a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge. 2. the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity: The toll was 300 persons dead or missing. 3. a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities. 4. a payment made for a long-distance telephone call. 5. (formerly, in England) the right to take such payment. 6. a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission. 7. grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding. v.t. 8. to collect (something) as toll. 9. to impose a tax or toll on (a person). v.i. 10. to collect toll; levy toll. [bef. 1000; (n.) ME, OE toll (c. D tol, G Zoll, ON tollr), assimilated var. of OE toln < LL toloneum, for teloneum < Gk teloneîon tollhouse, akin to telónes tax collector, télos tax; (v.) ME tollen, deriv. of the n.] Syn. 3. tariff, levy, impost, exaction. toll2 /tohl/, v.t. 1. to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or esp. for announcing a death. 2. to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes: In the distance Big Ben tolled five. 3. to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person). 4. to summon or dismiss by tolling. 5. to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity. 6. to allure; entice: He tolls us on with fine promises. v.i. 7. to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell. n. 8. the act of tolling a bell. 9. one of the strokes made in tolling a bell. 10. the sound made. Also, tole (for defs. 5, 6). [1175-1225; ME tollen to entice, lure, pull, hence prob. to make (a bell) ring by pulling a rope; akin to OE -tyllan, in fortyllan to attract, allure] toll3 /tohl/, v.t. Law. to suspend or interrupt (as a statute of limitations). [1425-75; late ME tollen to remove, legally annul < AF tolre, tol(l)er < L tollere to remove, take away] |
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