Picture the booth at the end of a bridge: you cannot cross without paying. That is the plainest version of the word — a charge for passing through. English then uses the same shape for prices that are not money at all: the lives an accident took, the wear a hard year left behind. A separate use, the slow ringing of a big bell, shows no clear link to any of that.
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原始詞典資料24 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Tollname
- 1
A surname.
tollnoun詞源 1/təʊl/
- 1
A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.
- 2
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- The war has taken its toll on the people.
- 3
A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- toll ore refining; toll manufacturing
- 4
businessA fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
- 5
A tollbooth.
- We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
- 6
obsoletelawA liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
- 7
obsoleteregionalA portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
tollverb詞源 1/təʊl/
- 1
To impose a fee for the use of.
- Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
- 2
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
- 3
To take as a toll.
- 4
To pay a toll or tallage.
- I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
tollnoun詞源 2/təʊl/
- 1
The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
tollverb詞源 2/təʊl/
- 1
To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- Martin tolled the great bell every day.
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
- 2
To summon by ringing a bell.
- The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
- When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
- 3
To announce by ringing a bell.
- The bells tolled the King’s death.
- Slow tolls the village-clock the drowſy hour; The partridge burſts away on whirring wings; Deep mourns the turtle in ſequeſter'd bower, And ſhrill lark carols clear from her aereal tour.
- 4
To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
tollverb詞源 3/təʊl/
- 1
obsoleteTo draw; pull; tug; drag.
- 2
To tear in pieces.
- 3
To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
- 4
To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
tollverb詞源 4/təʊl/
- 1
obsoletelawTo take away; to vacate; to annul.
- 2
lawTo suspend.
- The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.
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