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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Will you tell Miss Everdene that somebody would be glad to speak to her?"
-- "What I meant to tell you was only this," she said eagerly, and yet half conscious of the absurdity of the position she had made for herself "that nobody has got me yet as a sweetheart, instead of my having a dozen, as my aunt said; I hate to be thought men's property in that way, though possibly I shall be had some day.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The portly Sylvie presently came up to tell her mistress that a girl too pretty to be honest, "dressed like a goddess," and not a speck of mud on her laced cashmere boots, had glided in from the street like a snake, had found the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot's room.
-- "Oh!sir," said Victorine, with a tearful but eager glance at Vautrin, who showed no sign of being touched by it, "if you know of any way of communicating with my father, please be sure and tell him that his affection and my mother's honor are more to me than all the money in the world.
-- Tell Madame la Comtesse that I waited more than half an hour for her."
-- he cried pettishly, "just stay a moment, dear; you know very well that----" "I am coming back in a minute," she interrupted; "I have a commission for Maxime to execute, and I want to tell him about it."
-- My word!I will tell Mme.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It gives me the greatest delight to see you; but tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth.'
-- My country, my beloved country!who but a native can tell the delight I took in again beholding thy streams, 81thy mountains, and, more than all, thy lovely lake!
-- Let me go, or I will tell my papa.'
-- You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity 174 Frankensteinman more than he pities me?
-- Tell me, there-fore, whether you object to an immediate solemnization of the marriage.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The big brute he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to comeover and see him right away he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here and he'd trampledtwo of Ma's darkies who met the train at Jonesboro.
-- You canalways tell weather by sunsets."
-- We'll sit on the stair landing like we did at the last ball and get Mammy Jincy to come tell our fortunes again."
-- "If you'll promise, we'll tell you a secret," said Stuart.
-- And we had lots more things to tell her."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You know, Pip," said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, "you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last to tell upon you, any time.
-- "I tell you what, young fellow," said she, "I didn't bring you up by hand to badger people's lives out.
-- "I'll tell you something," returned the sergeant; "I suspect that stuff's of your providing."
-- "Didn't I tell you," said the other convict then, "that he would murder me, if he could?"
-- "And I'll tell you where from.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I will still, however, tell you how to find the golden horse, if you will do as I bid you.
-- 'With all my heart,' said Hans: 'but as you are so kind to me, I must tell you one thing you will have a weary task to draw that silver about with you.'
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