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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothing in it, I tell you.
-- "It's all very well for you to laugh, but I tell you I was so startled, I hit his cuff hard, and turned around, and cut out of the room I left him " Cuss stopped.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You were just beginning to tell me.'
-- 'But I tell you to go!'
-- 'If he comes this end of the ship again I'll cut his insides out, I tell you.
-- Cut out his blasted insides!Who are you, to tell me what I'm to do?
-- I tell you I'm captain of this ship, cap-tain and owner.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Shall I tell him of your gratitude?'
-- 'They tell me,' Shere Khan would say, 'that at Council ye dare not look him between the eyes.'
-- So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
-- 'Tell Bagheera, then, the Master Words of the Jungle that I have taught thee this day.'
-- Then he turned aside to tell Bagheera how he had begged the Master Words from Hathi the Wild Elephant, who knows all about these things, and how Hathi had taken Mowgli down to a pool to get the Snake Word from a water-snake, because Baloo could not pronounce it, and how Mowgli was now reasonably safe against all accidents in the jungle, be-cause neither snake, bird, nor beast would hurt him.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do they tell the young warriors that the pale faces met the red men, painted for war and armed with the stone hatchet and wooden gun?'
-- For myself, I conclude the Bumppos could shoot, for I have a natural turn with a rifle, which must have been handed down from generation to generation, as, our holy commandments tell us, all good and evil gifts are bestowed; though I should be loath to answer for other people in such a matter.
-- 'It can't be denied that your traditions tell you true in both these matters,' said the white man; 'for I have been there, and have seen them, though why water, which is so sweet in the shade, should become bitter in the sun, is an al-teration for which I have never been able to account.'
-- You might as well expect the river to lie still on the brink of those black rocks a mile above us, though your own ears tell you that it is tumbling over them at this very moment.'
-- 'Does he think when a hunter sees a part of the creature', he can't tell where the rest of him should be!'
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I tell you I know nothing," she said, in reply to my agitated questions, and then, with an airy shrug of the shoulders: "I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation."
-- "Will you tell her how sorry I am?
-- They'd taken a house for six weeks, and at the end of her tenancy she wrote to tell him on which day she was arriving in London.
-- "Did he tell his partner he was leaving?"
-- He'll probably just tell me to go to the devil."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But," resumed the sailor, "can you tell us what happened after you were carried off by the sea?"
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