toll是什么意思

双语用例

• The toll of bankruptcies was rising daily.

• The toll of babies born with AIDS is rising.

• The expected death tolls of these projects can therefore be entered into the analysis.

• The latter feature deals critically with the alleged demise of whom ('the bell tolls for whom') and the spread of the genitive, a reversal of expected tendencies.

• Private ownership of lighthouses, which had existed for centuries, came under increasing attack, due to the burdens high tolls and decentralized management were said to impose on the public.

• Though tolls sometimes involved the royal right of pre-emption, and probably levies in kind on ships' cargoes, money must have been for all parties a more convenient medium for payment.

• From the king's standpoint money tolls gave access to the silver bullion on which royal power partly depended without putting him to the trouble of fighting for it.

• The eight-minute second movement, marked = c. 48, opens with a brief solo elegy from the violin, which is soon joined by tolling piano chords which roll into a bluesy nightscape.