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
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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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
road toll · noun · B1
money you must pay to drive on some roads or cross some bridges.
通行費;過路費
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
A surname.
tollnoun詞源 1/təʊl/
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.
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
businessA fee for using any kind of material processing service.
A tollbooth.
obsoletelawA liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
obsoleteregionalA portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
tollverb詞源 1/təʊl/
To impose a fee for the use of.
To levy a toll on (someone or something).
To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
tollnoun詞源 2/təʊl/
The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
tollverb詞源 2/təʊl/
To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
To summon by ringing a bell.
To announce by ringing a bell.
To make a sound as if made by a bell.
tollverb詞源 3/təʊl/
obsoleteTo draw; pull; tug; drag.
To tear in pieces.
To draw; entice; invite; allure.
To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
tollverb詞源 4/təʊl/
obsoletelawTo take away; to vacate; to annul.
lawTo suspend.
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 Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。