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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The countryman than began to tell his tale, and said he was going to take the goose to a christening.
-- Soon afterwards the wolf came and wished him joy, and said, 'Now, my good fellow, you must tell no tales, but turn your head the other way when I want to taste one of the old shepherd's fine fat sheep.'
-- said the wife, 'we live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty pigsty; do go back and tell the fish we want a snug little cottage.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation toyourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.
-- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
-- The people so highly 52 Gulliver's Travelsresented this law, that our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown.
-- It was now day-light, and I returned to my house without waiting to congratulate with the emperor: because, although I had done a very eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental laws of the realm, it is capital in any person, of what quality soever, to make 62 Gulliver's Travelswater within the precincts of the palace.
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a rule and a pair of scales, and the multiplication table always in his pocket, sir, ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you exactly what it comes to.
-- 'Tell him he mustn't.
-- You mustn't tell us about that, here.
-- 'You mustn't tell us about the ring, here.
-- Don't tell us you wouldn't paper it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now to tell the truth, at that moment I was far more interested in the question as to what was to constitute our dinner than in any problem of science; to me soup was more interesting than soda, an omelette more tempting than arithmetic, and an artichoke of ten times more value than any amount of asbestos.
-- To tell the honest truth, when the right word would not come, it was generally replaced by a very powerful adjective.
-- I certainly could not tell him, nor did he expect me to--his conversation being uniformly answered by himself.
-- One look, however, would tell me all I wished to know.
-- I determined to tell all.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I tell you we must...we say such spiteful things to one an-other, about one another, behind our backs!I'm the worst.'
-- But she didn't tell Clifford.
-- 'And should you expect me to tell you?'
-- 'Well then!I tell you, if I'm really a male thing at all, I never run across the female of my species.
-- 'You did, your Ladyship,' he said; then, with a return to the vernacular: 'but I canna tell yer.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My friend, how is it possible for me to tell how long you are to lie here?
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