核心畫面

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.

可以想成:橋頭的收費亭——不繳錢就過不去。這是這個字最單純的樣子:通過就要付出的一筆費用。英文接著用同一個形狀去講不更多收起可以想成:橋頭的收費亭——不繳錢就過不去。這是這個字最單純的樣子:通過就要付出的一筆費用。英文接著用同一個形狀去講不是錢的代價:一場意外帶走的人命、辛苦一年在身體上留下的損耗。另外還有一個用法是大鐘緩慢的鳴響,它跟前面幾個看不出清楚的關聯,分開記就好。

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付出去的不是錢的代價

把收費亭的畫面搬到災難和消耗上:一件事要通過,總得付出什麼——付出的可以是人命,也可以是一個人長年累積下來的損耗。

death toll · noun · B2

the number of people killed or hurt in an accident, a storm, or a similar event.

傷亡人數;死亡人數

大鐘緩慢的鳴響

這一支跟收費和代價看不出清楚的關聯,當成獨立的一個用法記比較省事。它的場合很固定:教堂、喪禮、重大時刻。

bell tolls · verb · B2

if a large bell tolls, or if you toll it, it keeps ringing slowly, often in a serious or solemn way.

(鐘)緩慢敲響;鳴鐘

Also in this word

road toll · noun · B1

money you must pay to drive on some roads or cross some bridges.

通行費;過路費

原始詞典資料24 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。