tell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 告诉， 讲述； 告诫； 吩咐， 命令； 辨/区别，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Humbug, I tell you!humbug!'
-- 'Tell me why?'
-- 'Old Jacob Marley, tell me more.
-- Nor can I tell you what I would.
-- The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They tell me so.'
-- 'I entreat you to tell me more, sir.'
-- she said, indignantly turning to Mr. Lorry; couldn't you tell her what you had to tell her, with-out frightening her to death?
-- 'Tell monsieur what kind of shoe it is, and the maker's name.'
-- But I cannot tell you at this time, and I cannot tell you here.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'This pattern, and the col-ors, yes, I will tell the Emperor without delay, how very beautiful I think them.'
-- Tell him he shall, as on yesterday, have ten kisses from me, and may take the rest from the ladies of the court.'
-- 'I must tell you,' said she, 'that to-day is my birthday; and in honor of it, a pair of walking-shoes or galoshes has been entrusted to me, which I am to carry to mankind.
-- 'Only just tell me where the bridge is,' said he.
-- At the end of a year he had shot up a good deal, and af-ter another year he was another long bit taller; for with fir trees one can always tell by the shoots how many years old they are.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes asked: "Why do you tell me that?
-- "How many times have I told you to tell me at once?"
-- She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him.
-- by taking them away from their father, or by leaving them with a vicious father--yes, a vicious father.... Tell me, after what...has happened, can we live together?
-- Tell me, eh, is it possible?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to tell whether the new servant would turn out as absolutely methodical as his master required; experience alone could solve the question.
-- "The deuce!I was going to tell you there's one thing that worries me my burner!"
-- Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an explanation; but the general could not tell what meant a halt in the midst of this forest of dates and acacias.
-- Fix made up his mind that, if worst came to worst, he would make a confidant of Passepartout, and tell him what kind of a fellow his master really was.
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