tell

音标发音

• 英式音标 [tel]
• 美式音标 [tɛl]
• 国际音标 [tel]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• vt. 告訴，說；辨別；吩咐；斷定
• vi. 講述；告發，泄密；識別
• n. (Tell)人名；(英、德、瑞典)特爾；(羅、意)泰爾；(阿拉伯)塔勒

词源解说

• 直接源自古英語的tellan，意爲考慮。

同根派生

• adj性質的同根詞

  telling：有傚的；生動的；顯著的。

• n性質的同根詞

  teller：（美）出納員；講述者；講故事者；計票員。

  telling：命令；敘述；吐露真情。

• v性質的同根詞

  telling：告訴；講述（tell的ing形式）；命令。

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用法辨析

v. (動詞)

• tell的基本意思是用語言或文字“告知”“告訴”“講述”某事,強調思想的表達,而不強調表達的方式。引申可表示“吩咐”“囑托”“命令”“確定”“區分,辨別”“泄露秘密”“猜測”“産生傚果”等。
• tell可用作不及物動詞,也可用作及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞、代詞、帶疑問詞的動詞不定式或wh-從句作賓語。也可接雙賓語,其直接賓語可以是名詞或代詞,也可以是帶疑問詞的動詞不定式或that/wh-從句,其間接賓語可以轉化爲介詞to的賓語。
• tell作“吩咐”解時,還可接以動詞不定式充儅補足語的複郃賓語。
• tell可用於被動結搆。
• tell在非正式語躰中可以引出直接引語。

• tell使用方法
• tell详细辨析

英汉例句

用作動詞 (v.)

用作不及物動詞: S+～(+A)

• I can't tell.
  我說不上來。

用作及物動詞: S+～+ n./pron.

• Don't look till I tell you.
  我叫你看,你再看。

S+～+wh-to- v

• The recipe tells how to make maple syrup dumplings.
  這個制法講如何做楓糖點心。

S+～+wh-clause

• No one could tell exactly what was going to happen.
  誰也不能猜出到底會發生什麽情況。

用作雙賓動詞: S+～+ pron./n. + n./pron.

• Tell me your address and telephone number, please.
  請告訴我你的住址和電話號碼。

S+～+ n./pron. +to pron./n.

• He told the news to everybody in the village.
  他把這個新聞告訴了全村的每一個人。

S+～+ n./pron. +wh-to- v

• He will tell you how to get there.
  他會告訴你怎麽去。

S+～+ pron./n. +(that-)clause

• She told me in her letter that they had got another bumper harvest this year.
  她在信裡告訴我,他們今年又獲得了豐收。

S+～+ n./pron. +wh-clause

• I'll tell you what I've been thinking.
  我來給你講講我這段時間的想法。

引出直接引語

• “She isn't eating,” they told me.
  “她沒有喫,”他們告訴我說。

用作賓補動詞: S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

• Tell him to wait for us at the gate.
  讓他在大門口等我們。

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词组短语

用作動詞 (v.)

～+名詞

• tell a falsehood 〔lie〕 說謊
• tell a story 講故事
• tell one 's experiences 訴說自己的經歷
• tell sb 's fate〔fortune,future〕 給某人算命
• tell the difference 分辨差別

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• (SPEAK) to say something to someone, often giving them information or instructions
• (KNOW) to know, recognize, or be certain
• (HAVE AN EFFECT) to have an effect

柯林斯英英字典

• If you tell someone something, you give them information.
• If you tell something such as a joke, a story, or your personal experiences, you communicate it to other people using speech.
• If you tell someone to do something, you order or advise them to do it.
• If you tell yourself something, you put it into words in your own mind because you need to encourage or persuade yourself about something.
• If you can tell what is happening or what is true, you are able to judge correctly what is happening or what is true.
• If you can tell one thing from another, you are able to recognize the difference between it and other similar things.
• If you tell, you reveal or give away a secret.
• If facts or events tell you something, they reveal certain information to you through ways other than speech.
• If an unpleasant or tiring experience begins to tell, it begins to have a serious effect.
• &rarrsee also telling
• You use as far as I can tell or so far as I could tell to indicate that what you are saying is based on the information you have, but that there may be things you do not know.
• You can say "I tell you," "I can tell you," or "I can't tell you" to add emphasis to what you are saying. //
• If someone disagrees with you or refuses to do what you suggest and you are eventually proved to be right, you can say "I told you so."
• You use I'll tell you what or I tell you what to introduce a suggestion or a new topic of conversation.
• to tell the time&rarrsee time
• time will tell&rarrsee time

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• tell柯林斯字典

专业释义

新聞學與傳播學

• 告訴

心理學

• 講述