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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, then, tell us the meaning of these words."
-- The few broken disjointed words we find in these documents tell us the whole story.
-- Tell me, is my father living?
-- Oh, tell me," said the girl, earnestly.
-- "Oh, tell me all, tell me all, ma'am.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor's stick?
-- 'I think, Dr. Mortimer, you would do wisely if without more ado you would kindly tell me plainly what the exact nature of the problem is in which you demand my assistance.'
-- 'Now, tell me, Dr. Mortimer and this is important the marks which you saw were on the path and not on the grass?'
-- I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
-- But now, Dr. Mortimer, tell me this.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I tell you I hadn't a notion of what was about me or before me or be-low my feet all the way; I saw nothing whatever.
-- I dare say I may even come today if I have time, for I tell you frankly that I like you very much too.
-- 'Of course not of course not! bah!The criminal was a fine intelligent fearless man; Le Gros was his name; and I may tell you believe it or not, as you like that when that man stepped upon the scaffold he CRIED, he did indeed, he was as white as a bit of paper.
-- 'This is not my own fantastical opinion many people have thought the same; but I feel it so deeply that I'll tell you what I think.
-- I'll tell him at once he will be free in a minute; but you you had better wait in the ante-chamber, hadn't you?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let us ask some priest or prophet, or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Jove) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say whether it is for some vow that we have bro-ken, or hecatomb that we have not offered, and whether he will accept the savour of lambs and goats without blemish, so as to take away the plague from us.'
-- With all sincerity and goodwill he addressed them thus: 'Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger of King Apollo, I will therefore do so; but consider first and swear that you will stand by me heartily in word and deed, for I know that I shall offend one who rules the Argives with might, to whom all the Achaeans are in sub-jection.
-- Let me tell you and it shall surely be he shall pay for this insolence with his life.'
-- Cease, then, this brawling, and do not draw your sword; rail at him if you will, and your railing will not be vain, for I tell you and it shall surely be that you shall hereafter receive gifts three times as splendid by reason of this present insult.
-- Keep it not from me, but tell me, that we may know it together.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'll tell you something," said Fearenside, mysteriously.
-- I tell you, he's as black as my hat."
-- And I tell 'ee what I'm thinking.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the Innkeeper who had come to tell him that midnight had struck.
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