tell
vt. 告诉, 说, 吩咐, 断定, 知道 vi. 讲述, 泄密, 告发, 表明
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教材释义与例句
告诉，说；辨别；吩咐；断定
if someone tells you something, they communicate information, a story, their feelings etc to you
释义与例句
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A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
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A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
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That which is told; a tale or account.
古体April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I am at the end of my tell.
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A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
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A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
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Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving
To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
及物All told, there were over a dozen. Can you tell time on a clock? He had untold wealth.
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Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving
To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
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不及物 及物I can tell that you're thrilled.
You can tell you've struck a nerve when even the crowd stops laughing.
She couldn't tell the words on the chalkboard without her glasses.
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Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving
To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)
不及物 及物An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? No, there's no way to tell.
Whether she loves me or loves me not / Sometimes it's hard to tell
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Social senses of communicating
To narrate, to recount.
双及物 及物I want to tell a story; I want to tell you a story.
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Social senses of communicating
To convey by speech; to say.
双及物 及物Finally, someone told him the truth. He seems to like to tell lies.
Tell her you’re here.
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Social senses of communicating
To instruct or inform.
及物Please tell me how to do it.
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Social senses of communicating
To order; to direct, to say to someone.
及物Tell him to go away.
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Social senses of communicating
To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
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Social senses of communicating
To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
不及物I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!
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Social senses of communicating
To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
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不及物 媒体Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.
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Abstract senses related to showing or revealing
To show, be showing, be revealed.
不及物Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.
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Abstract senses related to showing or revealing
To reveal.
及物Time will tell what became of him.
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Abstract senses related to showing or revealing
To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
不及物Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
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From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-West Germanic *talljan, from Proto-Germanic *taljaną, *talzijaną (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *talą, *talō (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”) and Dutch vertellen (“to tell”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.
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