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
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的tellan,意为考虑。
同根派生
- adj性质的同根词
- telling:有效的;生动的;显著的。
- n性质的同根词
- teller:(美)出纳员;讲述者;讲故事者;计票员。
- telling:命令;叙述;吐露真情。
- v性质的同根词
- telling:告诉;讲述(tell的ing形式);命令。
用法辨析
- tell的基本意思是用语言或文字“告知”“告诉”“讲述”某事,强调思想的表达,而不强调表达的方式。引申可表示“吩咐”“嘱托”“命令”“确定”“区分,辨别”“泄露秘密”“猜测”“产生效果”等。
- tell可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词、带疑问词的动词不定式或wh-从句作宾语。也可接双宾语,其直接宾语可以是名词或代词,也可以是带疑问词的动词不定式或that/wh-从句,其间接宾语可以转化为介词to的宾语。
- tell作“吩咐”解时,还可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
- tell可用于被动结构。
- tell在非正式语体中可以引出直接引语。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- I can't tell.
我说不上来。 - Don't look till I tell you.
我叫你看,你再看。 - The recipe tells how to make maple syrup dumplings.
这个制法讲如何做枫糖点心。 - No one could tell exactly what was going to happen.
谁也不能猜出到底会发生什么情况。 - Tell me your address and telephone number, please.
请告诉我你的住址和电话号码。 - He told the news to everybody in the village.
他把这个新闻告诉了全村的每一个人。 - He will tell you how to get there.
他会告诉你怎么去。 - She told me in her letter that they had got another bumper harvest this year.
她在信里告诉我,他们今年又获得了丰收。 - I'll tell you what I've been thinking.
我来给你讲讲我这段时间的想法。 - “She isn't eating,” they told me.
“她没有吃,”他们告诉我说。 - Tell him to wait for us at the gate.
让他在大门口等我们。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+~(+A)
用作及物动词: S+~+ n./pron.
S+~+wh-to- v
S+~+wh-clause
用作双宾动词: S+~+ pron./n. + n./pron.
S+~+ n./pron. +to pron./n.
S+~+ n./pron. +wh-to- v
S+~+ pron./n. +(that-)clause
S+~+ n./pron. +wh-clause
引出直接引语
用作宾补动词: S+~+ n./pron. +to- v
词组短语
- tell a falsehood 〔lie〕 说谎
- tell a story 讲故事
- tell one 's experiences 诉说自己的经历
- tell sb 's fate〔fortune,future〕 给某人算命
- tell the difference 分辨差别
用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
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
- 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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专业释义
- 告诉
- 讲述