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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If he did not find it practicable to arrest Fogg at Hong Kong, and if Fogg made preparations to leave that last foothold of English territory, he, Fix, would tell Passepartout all.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Doc Needham couldn't tell you that!He don't know what butterflies are called!He don't care if you get trained.
-- On the campus he met that jovial historian of chemistry, Encore Edwards, and begged, "Say, Professor, tell me, is there any value for a doctor in organic chemistry?"
-- Look here!We don't tell you how you ought to work.
-- Where do you get the idea you got to tell us?
-- "I tell you, you fellows are the kind that keep medicine nothing but guess-work diagnosis, and here you have a man--" So they argued for hours, after their sweaty fact-grinding.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And although she is most con-tinually on bad terms with the landlady, yet she wanted to tell someone or other of her past honours and of the happy days that are gone.
-- And all that, let me tell you, she has simply made up for herself, and not simply out of wantonness, for the sake of bragging; no, she believes it all herself, she amuses herself with her own fancies, upon my word she does!And I don't blame her for it, no, I don't blame her!芒聙娄 Six days ago when I brought her my first earnings in full twenty-three roubles forty co-pecks altogether she called me her poppet: 'poppet,' said she, 'my little poppet.'
-- Tell me, sir, are you sorry or not?
-- Thank God, her sufferings are over, but I will tell you everything in order, so that you may know just how ev-erything has happened and all that we have hitherto concealed from you.
-- When you wrote to me two months ago that you had heard that Dounia had a great deal to put up with in the Svidrigra脙炉lovs' house, when you wrote that and asked me to tell you all about it what could I write in answer to you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tell you I have a presentiment that it must be a girl,' returnedMiss Betsey.
-- The sheep are feeding there, when Ikneel up, early in the morning, in my little bed in a closet withinmy mother's room, to look out at it; and I see the red light shiningon the sun-dial, and think within myself, 'Is the sun-dial glad, Iwonder, that it can tell the time again?'
-- 'Don't tell Peggotty; she might be angry with them.
-- It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect howeager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspectedwhat I did leave for ever.
-- Wait abit, Master Davy, and tell you something.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He will be able to tell her how we all are.'
-- 'Well,' said Emma, willing to let it pass 'you want to hear about the wedding; and I shall be happy to tell you, for we all behaved charmingly.
-- She was ready to tell every thing in her power, but on this subject questions were vain.
-- She had been satisfied to hear and be-lieve just what Mrs. Goddard chose to tell her; and looked no farther.
-- Did not I tell you what he said of you the other day?'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle has a hut like this one, and I have heard him tell his shepherd not to go to sleep without leaving a slide open.
-- "I would just as soon not tell it rather not.
-- "You can inquire at my aunt's she will tell you."
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