英语词汇“to take its toll”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

i. figurative. Formerly frequently in the toll of the road. (Cf. tribute n., similarly used.) Frequently in to take its toll (esp. of death, loss, or injury).

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c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 256 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 365 Þane bad he..brynnand cole straw in þe floure..& nakyt þare-one hire rol, til scho of ded had quyt þe tol.

1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace p. xv Wallace joined Colonel Hays's regiment..and was with it at the storming of Monterey, where he says he took ‘full toll’ out of the Mexicans for killing his brother and cousin..in 1836.a1882 D. G. Rossetti Introd. Sonn. in House of Life [Whether] In Charm's palm it pay the toll to Death.1909 Blackwood's Mag. July 19/2 Nott's gallant division..paid its toll of killed and wounded.1925 Daily Mail The toll of the road.1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 2/3 Miners' members were artists in presenting the toll of the mines in its most impressive form.1959 Listener 6 Aug. 222/1 A thoroughly well-intentioned programme aimed at reducing the toll on the roads.1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. ii. xv. 123 The war had taken from France a heavy toll of her young men from 1914 to 1918.1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 189 In fact it had been very hardbought, some of the winnings, taking fearful tolls of nerve, straining every atom of him.1974 F. Forsyth Dogs of War xiv. 264 He felt tired and flat; the strain of the past thirty days was taking its toll.1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. ii. 147 Forty-five patients were dead (the toll would increase to over eighty), and countless more were wounded.1981 Times 9 June 6/3 The death toll in the train disaster..could be more than 1,000.1982 S. Brett Murder Unprompted xii. 113 The obscurity of the play, and the..lack of star names—all the elements which pessimists had predicted would work against the show—were now beginning to take their toll.

单词	to take its toll
释义	> as lemmas to take its toll i. figurative. Formerly frequently in the toll of the road. (Cf. tribute n., similarly used.) Frequently in to take its toll (esp. of death, loss, or injury). ΚΠ c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 256 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 365 Þane bad he..brynnand cole straw in þe floure..& nakyt þare-one hire rol, til scho of ded had quyt þe tol. 1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace p. xv Wallace joined Colonel Hays's regiment..and was with it at the storming of Monterey, where he says he took ‘full toll’ out of the Mexicans for killing his brother and cousin..in 1836.a1882 D. G. Rossetti Introd. Sonn. in House of Life [Whether] In Charm's palm it pay the toll to Death.1909 Blackwood's Mag. July 19/2 Nott's gallant division..paid its toll of killed and wounded.1925 Daily Mail The toll of the road.1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 2/3 Miners' members were artists in presenting the toll of the mines in its most impressive form.1959 Listener 6 Aug. 222/1 A thoroughly well-intentioned programme aimed at reducing the toll on the roads.1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. ii. xv. 123 The war had taken from France a heavy toll of her young men from 1914 to 1918.1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 189 In fact it had been very hardbought, some of the winnings, taking fearful tolls of nerve, straining every atom of him.1974 F. Forsyth Dogs of War xiv. 264 He felt tired and flat; the strain of the past thirty days was taking its toll.1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. ii. 147 Forty-five patients were dead (the toll would increase to over eighty), and countless more were wounded.1981 Times 9 June 6/3 The death toll in the train disaster..could be more than 1,000.1982 S. Brett Murder Unprompted xii. 113 The obscurity of the play, and the..lack of star names—all the elements which pessimists had predicted would work against the show—were now beginning to take their toll. extracted from tolln.¹ < as lemmas
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