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《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tell me, Neb," added the engineer, turning to his servant, "it was not you who... you can't have had a moment of unconsciousness... during which no, that's absurd.... Do any of the footsteps still remain?"
-- The reporter held his chronometer in his hand, ready to tell the hour which it marked when the shadow would be at its shortest.
-- "All that is well and good," then said Pencroft, who had listened with all his might, "but will you tell me, captain, if Lincoln Island has been made by your insects?"
-- "But, Pencroft," replied Neb, "it wasn't our fault that the beast got away; as I tell you, we had turned it over on its back!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Suppose I should tell you wrong?'
-- said the old man turning to me with a sigh, as if I had spoken to him but that moment, 'you don't know what you say when you tell me that I don't consider her.'
-- I tell you again that I want to see my sister.'
-- How often am I to tell you that my life is one of care and self-denial, and that I am poor?'
-- 'How often am I to tell you,' returned the other, looking coldly at him, 'that I know better?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And tell the Korchagins' maid that I thank them; I will try to call."
-- "Then tell him that we shall try the poisoning case."
-- "Now tell us how it happened," he said, leaning his elbows on the arms of the chair and putting his hands on the table.
-- She could not tell why, but she felt that he was her enemy.
-- He had nothing to tell her, but tried to think of something, and said, when passing her: "Auntie said that she would receive the sacrament after mass."
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Some sleight-of-hand trick or other," said the Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjuror he had seen at Burslem, but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby's anecdote collapsed.
-- It's too long a story to tell over greasy plates."
-- I want to tell it.
-- And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
-- It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I'm going to tell you all your faults.
-- Kitty, dear, let's pretend ' And here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favourite phrase 'Let's pretend.'
-- 'Now, if you'll only attend, Kitty, and not talk so much, I'll tell you all my ideas about Looking-glass House.
-- 'You should have said, "It's extremely kind of you to tell me all this" however, we'll suppose it said the Seventh Square is all forest however, one of the Knights will show you the way and in the Eighth Square we shall be Queens together, and it's all feasting and fun!'
-- But I can tell you the names of some of them.'
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