tell

英式音标：tell怎么读

美式音标：tell怎么读

词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,考研,CET6,高频词,基本词汇

近义词： utter,recite,note,comment,assert,answer,convey,state,advise,announce,declare,forecast,speak,express,remark,voice,relate,mention,say,inform,explain,impart,suggest,report,communicate

反义词： listen,hear

tell词义

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vt. 告诉，说；辨别；吩咐；断定vi. 讲述；告发，泄密；识别n. (Tell)人名；(英、德、瑞典)特尔；(罗、意)泰尔；(阿拉伯)塔勒

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第三人称单数: tells;过去式: told;过去分词: told;现在分词: telling;

中文词源

tell 数数，告诉，告知

来自古英语 tellan,计算，数数，思考，来自 Proto-Germanic*taljan,计算，来自 PIE*del,计算，词源同 tale,talk.引申词义告诉，告知。原词义见 teller,会计，出纳。

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1. "You really won't tell?" she asked, begging for reassurance.: “你真的不说吗？”她问道，乞求得到安慰。

2. She would have liked to tell him to butt out.: 她本想告诉他叫他别插手的。

3. When your children misbehave tell them without making them feel small.: 孩子表现不佳时要让他们知道，但不能让他们自惭形秽。

4. She scribbled a note to tell Mum she'dgone out.: 她匆匆写了个便条告诉妈妈她已外出。

5. His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke.: 他的朋友们说，以前他讲笑话总是张嘴就来。

tell英文词源

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tell: tell: [OE] Tell goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *taljan, a derivative of *talō ‘something told’ (from which English gets tale). This in turn was formed from the base *tal-, source also of English talk. Beside ‘narrative, discourse’ lies another strand of meaning, ‘counting, enumeration’ (pointing back to an original common denominator ‘put in order’), which survives in all told and the derivative teller ‘counter of votes’, and also in the related German zählen ‘count’.
=> tale, talk
tell (v.): Old English tellan "to reckon, calculate, number, compute; consider, think, esteem, account" (past tense tealde, past participle teald), from Proto-Germanic *taljan "to mention in order" (cognates: Old Saxon tellian "tell," Old Norse telja "to count, number; to tell, say," Old Frisian tella "to count; to tell," Middle Dutch and Dutch tellen, Old Saxon talon "to count, reckon," Danish tale "to speak," Old High German zalon, German zählen "to count, reckon"), from PIE root *del- (2) "to count, reckon" (see tale).

Meaning "to narrate, announce, relate" in English is from c. 1000; that of "to make known by speech or writing, announce" is from early 12c. Sense of "to reveal or disclose" is from c. 1400; that of "to act as an informer, to 'peach' " is recorded from 1901. Meaning "to order (someone to do something)" is from 1590s. To tell (someone) off "reprimand" is from 1919.

Original sense in teller and phrase to tell time. For sense evolution, compare French conter "to count," raconter "to recount;" Italian contare, Spanish contar "to count, recount, narrate;" German zählen "to count," erzählen "to recount, narrate." Klein also compares Hebrew saphar "he counted," sipper "he told."
tell (n.): "mound, hill," 1864, from Arabic tall, related to Hebrew tel "mount, hill, heap." Compare Hebrew talul "lofty," Akkadian tillu "woman's breast."

tell实用场景例句

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He told the news to everybody he saw.: 他逢人便讲这个消息。

He told everybody he saw the news.: 他逢人便讲这个消息。

Why wasn't I told about the accident?: 为什么没人把这次事故告诉我？

Did she tell you her name?: 她告诉你她的姓名了吗？

What did I tell you ? (= you should have listened to my advice): 我跟你说什么来着？

They've told us (that) they're not coming.: 他们已跟我们说过不来了。

In the evening I returned to tell Phyllis our relationship was over...: 晚上我回来告诉菲莉丝我们之间完了。

I called Andie to tell her how spectacular the stuff looked...: 我打电话告诉安迪，那东西看上去太棒了。

His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke...: 他的朋友们说，以前他讲笑话总是张嘴就来。

He told his story to The Sunday Times and produced photographs...: 他把自己的经历讲述给了《星期日泰晤士报》的记者，还提供了照片。

A passer-by told the driver to move his car so that it was not causing an obstruction...: 一个过路人叫那个司机把他的车挪一挪，免得挡道。

She told me on the telephone to come help clean the house.: 她在电话里叫我过去帮忙打扫屋子。

'Come on', she told herself...: “加油！”她在心里暗暗打气。

I told myself I would be satisfied with whatever I could get.: 我告诉自己，不管得到什么我都会心满意足的。

It was already impossible to tell where the bullet had entered...: 已经无法判断子弹是从哪里打进来的。

I couldn't tell if he had been in a fight or had just fallen down...: 我不知道他是和人家打架了，还是仅仅摔了一跤。

I can't really tell the difference between their policies and ours...: 我真的看不出他们的政策和我们的有什么不同。

How do you tell one from another?...: 你怎么把他们区分开来？

Many of the children know who they are but are not telling.: 许多孩子知道他们是谁，可就是不说。

The facts tell us that this is not true...: 事实告诉我们，这不是真的。

I don't think the unemployment rate ever tells us much about the future...: 我认为，从失业率上永远看不出未来的情况究竟如何。

The pressure began to tell as rain closed in after 20 laps...: 跑完 20 圈以后，眼看就要下雨了，大家开始紧张起来。

The strains of office are beginning to tell on the prime minister.: 首相开始感到公务繁忙的压力了。

As far as I can tell, Jason is basically a nice guy...: 据我所知，贾森算得上是个好人。

So far as anyone can tell, there's evidence that there was a Robin Hood...: 众所周知，有证据表明确实有罗宾汉这么个人。

I tell you this, I will not rest until that day has come...: 我可以肯定地说，不到那天我不会休息。

This little letter gave us a few chuckles, I can tell you...: 说真的，我们看了这封短信都笑了。

You never can tell what life is going to bring you.: 你永远不知道人生会给你带来些什么。

Her parents did not approve of her decision and, if she failed, her mother would say, 'I told you so.': 她父母不赞同她的决定，要是她失败了，她妈妈就会说：“怎么样，我说对了吧？”

I tell you what, I'll bring the water in a separate glass.: 要不这样吧，我用另一个玻璃杯把水端过来。

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