take its toll

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take its toll 的定义

  1. Be damaging or harmful, cause loss or destruction, as in The civil war has taken its toll on both sides, or The heavy truck traffic has taken its toll on the highways. This expression transfers the taking of toll, a tribute or tax, to exacting other costs. [Late 1800s]

take its toll 近义词

take its toll

等同于 tell

更多take its toll例句

  1. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  2. And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
  3. ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
  4. Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
  5. Clickbait title notwithstanding, Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!
  6. I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
  7. Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
  8. But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
  9. And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
  10. Where the dampness is excessive the fronds take on an unhealthy appearance, and mould may appear.