英:[ˈtəʊlbu:ð]
美:[ˈtoʊlbuθ]
英:[ˈtəʊlbu:ð]
美:[ˈtoʊlbuθ]
toll·booth
tol buth
复数:tollbooths
14世纪初,最初是税收征收员的亭子,来自 toll(n.)+ booth。
Middle English tolbothe, tollbothe tollbooth, town hall, jail, from tol, toll toll + bothe booth
The first known use of tollbooth was in the 14th century
tomatonoun
a usually large rounded red or sometimes yellow pulpy berry that is eaten as a vegetable
a widely grown South American plant of the nightshade family that produces tomatoes
tomatonoun
a usually large rounded red or sometimes yellow pulpy berry that is eaten as a vegetable
a widely grown South American plant of the nightshade family that produces tomatoes
tomahawknoun
a light ax used as a weapon especially by Indigenous people of North America
tomnoun
the male of various animals: as
tom cat
a male turkey
toll1 of 3noun
a tax paid for a privilege (as the use of a highway or bridge)
a charge paid for a service
the cost in life or health
the death toll from the hurricane
toll2 of 3verb
to announce or call by the sounding of a bell
to sound with slow strokes
the bell tolls solemnly
toll3 of 3noun
the sound of a tolling bell
toll1 of 3noun
a tax paid for a privilege (as the use of a highway or bridge)
a charge paid for a service
the cost in life or health
the death toll from the hurricane
toll2 of 3verb
to announce or call by the sounding of a bell
to sound with slow strokes
the bell tolls solemnly
toll3 of 3noun
the sound of a tolling bell
tollhousenoun
a house or booth where tolls are collected
tollgatenoun
a point where vehicles stop to pay a toll
tollboothnoun
a booth where tolls are paid
1 Today, license plate scanners are commonly used on highways as a replacement for tollbooths, but law enforcement use of the devices has been a source of public concern for years.
2 His attackers squirted gasoline into the tollbooth coin slot and ignited the fuel with matches.
3 Ms. Bliss is now planning to install mock tollbooths in Williamsburg and SoHo that read: “Welcome back to New York to those who fled. The readmittance fee is patronage of your local businesses.”
4 If fictional children can enter magical realms through a wardrobe or a tollbooth, why not a Christmas tree?
5 Without tollbooths along the stretch, drivers need an E-ZPass unless they are on a motorcycle.
6 Milo did want to buy something, but the only money he had was the coin he needed to get back through the tollbooth, and Tock, of course, had nothing but the time.
7 On the road, the advent of EZPass and other computerized toll machines are replacing human tollbooth collectors.
在公路上,EZPAass和其它计算机化收费机器的到来正在取代人类收费员。
8 Now, tollbooths on about two-thirds of the 6,600 miles of roads overseen by the group’s members no longer accept cash, he said.
9 The folks at the tollbooth are kind, giving me coffee and water and offering to help any way they can.
10 He threw himself into the role so fully that for years, he said, strangers would say to him things like “Hey, don’t go through that tollbooth again.”
11 If the sushi is not quite as transcendent, it may be the best ever made in the equivalent of a tollbooth.
12 Then, taking the map and rule book with him, he hopped in and, for lack of anything better to do, drove slowly up to the tollbooth.
13 It is Sunday, and for the last five hours, I have been sitting at a tollbooth in West Virginia.
14 Taxi Driver: But we'll go through a tollbooth.
计程车司机:但我们会经过一个收费站。
15 So when exiting the tollbooths in a barrier toll, vehicles must "fan in" from the larger number of tollbooth egress lanes to the smaller number of regular travel lanes.
因此,当汽车驶出收费站之后,车流必须从较宽的收费站出口呈扇形快速并入车道较少的常规机动车道。
16 Cole’s car had passed through a tollbooth in New Jersey the night Noah was stabbed, blowing his alibi, and when he got angry with the cops, he ended up in jail.
17 Another welcome perk is a discount on the French motorway, though I was forced to resort to my patchy language skills when an error message flashed up at one automated tollbooth.
18 Like a tollbooth, with windows on three sides and a door in the rear.
19 For The Godfather he created the horse’s head in the movie executive’s bed and the bullet holes punctuating Sonny Corleone’s tollbooth demise.
20 Jones opened his own company, Chuck Jones Enterprises, in 1962, directing such animated features as The Phantom Tollbooth (1971) and specials for television.
琼斯于1962年开办了自己的公司——查克·琼斯公司,导演了诸如《收费亭里的幽灵》(1971年)等多部动画片和电视专题片。
2 收费亭
3 收费站
4 收费处
5 监狱
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