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。
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought he was pursued by some savage, or frighted with some wild beast, and I ran forward towards him to help him; but when I came nearer to him I saw something hang-ing over his shoulders, which was a creature that he had shot, like a hare, but different in colour, and longer legs; however, we were very glad of it, and it was very good meat; but the great joy that poor Xury came with, was to tell me he had found good water and seen no wild mans.
-- We made signs of thanks to them, for we had nothing to make them amends; but an opportunity offered that very instant to oblige them wonderfully; for while we were lying by the shore came two mighty creatures, one pursuing the other (as we took it) with great fury from the mountains to-wards the sea; whether it was the male pursuing the female, or whether they were in sport or in rage, we could not tell, any more than we could tell whether it was usual or strange, but I believe it was the latter; because, in the first place, those ravenous creatures seldom appear but in the night; and, in the second place, we found the people terribly frighted, es-pecially the women.
-- However, they were at a great distance, and I could not well tell what I had best to do; for if I should be taken with a fresh of wind, I might nei-ther reach one or other.
-- I believe it is impossible to express, to the life, what the ec-stasies and transports of the soul are, when it is so saved, as I may say, out of the very grave: and I do not wonder now at the custom, when a malefactor, who has the halter about his neck, is tied up, and just going to be turned off, and has a reprieve brought to him - I say, I do not wonder that they bring a surgeon with it, to let him blood that very moment they tell him of it, that the surprise may not drive the ani-mal spirits from the heart and overwhelm him.
-- Yet I saw abundance of fowls, but knew not their kinds; neither when I killed them could I tell what was fit for food, and what not.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When you tell me to love him as a brother, I shall no more see imperfection in his face, than I now do in his heart."
-- On this point Sir John could give more certain intelligence; and he told them that Mr. Willoughby had no property of his own in the country; that he resided there only while he was visiting the old lady at Allenham Court, to whom he was related, and whose possessions he was to inherit; adding, "Yes, yes, he is very well worth catching I can tell you, Miss Dashwood; he has a pretty little estate of his own in Somersetshire besides; and if I were you, I would not give him up to my younger sister, in spite of all this tumbling down hills.
-- Poor Brandon!he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles."
-- But by an appeal to her affection for her mother, by representing the inconveniences which that indulgent mother must draw on herself, if (as would probably be the case) she consented to this increase of establishment, Marianne was shortly subdued; and she promised not to tempt her mother to such imprudent kindness by mentioning the offer, and to tell Willoughby when she saw him next, that it must be declined.
-- she cried, "I have such a secret to tell you about Marianne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not tell how his luring succeeded.
-- She was a work-seeker, an outcast without employment, one whom the average employee could tell at a glance was poor and in need of a situation.
-- Minnie, under the warming influence of Carrie's good spirits and her husband's somewhat conversational mood, began to tell Carrie of some of the well-known things to see--things the enjoyment of which cost nothing.
-- "I'll tell you how it goes to-night," said Carrie.
-- Drouet had what was a help in his business, a moderate sense of humour, and could tell a good story when the occasion required.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round more than a body could tell what to do with.
-- Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
-- I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
-- Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin.'
-- Niggers would come miles to hear Jim tell about it, and he was more looked up to than any nigger in that coun-try.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As for me, let me tell you, I hate to study!It's much more fun, I think, to chase after butterflies, climb trees, and steal birds' nests."
-- "Shall I tell you something?"
-- "Let me tell you, for your own good, Pinocchio," said the Talking Cricket in his calm voice, "that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison."
-- "But I am not like other boys!I am better than all of them and I always tell the truth.
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