toll
- IPA[tōl]
美式
- (with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement；(of a bell) announce or mark (the time, a service, or a person's death)
- a single ring of a bell
verb: toll, 3rd person present: tolls, gerund or present participle: tolling, past tense: tolled, past participle: tolled
noun: toll
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. (with reference to a bell) sound or cause to sound with a slow, uniform succession of strokes, as a signal or announcement the bells of the cathedral began to toll for evening service the priest began tolling the bell
- ▪ (of a bell) announce or mark (the time, a service, or a person's death) the bell of St. Mary's began to toll the curfew
名詞
- 1. a single ring of a bell she heard the Cambridge School bell utter a single toll
