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。

• tell相关词

用法辨析

v. (动词)

• 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。

• tell使用方法
• tell详细辨析

英汉例句

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)

• I can't tell.
  我说不上来。

用作及物动词: 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.
  这个制法讲如何做枫糖点心。

S+～+wh-clause

• 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。

用作双宾动词: S+～+ pron./n. + n./pron.

• Tell me your address and telephone number, please.
  请告诉我你的住址和电话号码。

S+～+ n./pron. +to pron./n.

• 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。

S+～+ n./pron. +wh-to- v

• He will tell you how to get there.
  他会告诉你怎么去。

S+～+ pron./n. +(that-)clause

• 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。

S+～+ n./pron. +wh-clause

• I'll tell you what I've been thinking.
  我来给你讲讲我这段时间的想法。

引出直接引语

• “She isn't eating,” they told me.
  “她没有吃,”他们告诉我说。

用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to- v

• Tell him to wait for us at the gate.
  让他在大门口等我们。

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词组短语

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• 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

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• (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

新闻学与传播学

• 告诉

心理学

• 讲述