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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue.
-- A glorious mission, but a dangerous one!We cannot tell where we may go; these animals can be very capricious.
-- "But, Ned, they tell of ships which the teeth of the narwhal have pierced through and through."
-- "If master were to tell our story," said Conseil, "perhaps these gentlemen may understand some words."
-- I began to tell our adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and without omitting one single detail.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I tell you, he treats any little fool as he treats me or you and it's such an insult."
-- "I don't know that's what I want somebody to tell me.
-- "I tell you it isn't drink it's your disgusting behaviour, Pussum, it's nothing else.
-- Tell me again.
-- "I wish you'd tell me something that did matter," said Gerald, looking down all the time at the face of the other man, waiting for something.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cannot you tell her whom I am, eh, Joseph?
-- People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is no chance of a change at present.
-- 'I want you to tell me my way, not to SHOW it: or else to persuade Mr. Heathcliff to give me a guide.
-- Well, Mrs. Dean, it will be a charitable deed to tell me something of my neighbours: I feel I shall not rest if I go to bed; so be good enough to sit and chat an hour.
-- Heathcliff took the handsomest, but it soon fell lame, and when he discovered it, he said to Hindley You must exchange horses with me: I don't like mine; and if you won't I shall tell your father of the three thrashings you've given me this week, and show him my arm, which is black to the shoulder.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You can tell me when I've worked through that," says he, looking as fierce as a commander.
-- How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
-- Now, Mrs. Hawkins, just you run upstairs to your husband and tell him, if possible, nothing about it.
-- I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes what to the doctor know of lands like that? and I lived on rum, I tell you.
-- That doctor's a fool, I tell you.
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