Tell
[tel]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap).
(verb.) discern or comprehend; 'He could tell that she was unhappy'.
(verb.) let something be known; 'Tell them that you will be late'.
(verb.) narrate or give a detailed account of; 'Tell what happened'; 'The father told a story to his child'.
(verb.) give evidence; 'he was telling on all his former colleague'.
艾拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
(v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
(v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
(v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
(v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
(v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
(v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
(v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
(v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
(n.) That which is told; tale; account.
(n.) A hill or mound.
埃尔伯特編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Express, utter, speak, state, mention, communicate, publish, speak of, make mention of.[2]. Relate, recount, rehearse, narrate, describe, report, give an account of.[3]. Inform, teach, instruct, acquaint, apprise, make known to, explain to, disclose to, communicate to, make known to.[4]. Disclose, reveal, divulge, confess, betray, acknowledge, own, declare, make known.[5]. Number, count, enumerate, compute, reckon, take an account of, run over, sum up, call over.[6]. Discern, discover, make out, distinguish.
v. n. [1]. Give account, make report.[2]. Take effect, be effective, hit the nail on the head.
校對:维托
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Mention, number, enumerate, count, recount, utter, recite, state, narrate,disclose, publish, betray, divulge, promulgate, acquaint, teach, inform,explain, communicate, report, rehearse, discern, judge, discriminate,ascertain, decide, describe
ANT:Repress, suppress, misrecount, misnarrate, miscommunicate, misdeclare,misrecite, misjudge, misdescribe
整理:尼古拉斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to number or give an account of: to utter: to narrate: to disclose: to inform: to discern: to explain.—v.i. to give an account: to produce or take effect: to chat gossip: to tell tales play the informer:—pa.t. and pa.p. tōld.—adj. Tell′able capable of being told.—ns. Tell′er one who tells or counts: a clerk whose duty it is to receive and pay money; Tell′ership the office of a teller.—p.adj. Tell′ing having great effect.—adv. Tell′ingly in a telling or effective manner.—n. Tell′-tale one who tells tales: one who officiously tells the private concerns of others: an indication or an indicator as an automatic instrument: a bird of genus Totanus a tattler.—adj. given to reveal secrets blabbing: apparent openly seen: giving warning.—Tell off to count off: to detach on some special duty.
阿尔玛編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- But please to tell me at once what you have done. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I could tell you a story about that same uncle, gentlemen, that would rather surprise you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He had not dared to tell it sooner. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He could not tell me that; he saw me, and over my shoulder he saw the man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I don't tell amusing stories, he said curtly, and walked across to the piano. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I told his impudence that the gilt pestle and mortar was quite ornament enough; as if I was born, indeed, to be a country surgeon's wife! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- We went to the 'commissionaire' of the hotel--I don't know what a 'commissionaire' is, but that is the man we went to--and told him we wanted a guide. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I must do what I am told. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But practical sense told them that sex cannot be confined within marriage. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There were only these few words in her neatly flowing hand:-- I have told Mrs. Casaubon. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Tom, love, I am telling Mr. Harthouse that he never saw you abroad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It would have been almost as good as telling him that she was the thief. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I was this moment telling Jane, I thought you would begin to be impatient for tidings of us. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She answered Sergeant Cuff's inquiry for the landlord, by telling him sharply that her master was up-stairs, and was not to be bothered by anybody. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thank you, Dobbin, he said, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles, I was just--just telling her I would. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I don't think, Mr. Hale, you have done quite right in introducing such a person to us without telling us what he had been. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Edison has always had an amused admiration for Bergmann, and his social side is often made evident by his love of telling stories about those days of struggle. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Mr. Letterblair tells me the financial question has been settled-- Oh, yes, she said indifferently. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Wait till Bill tells you, then. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I don't know how, but the book tells. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If he tells you that socialism is against human nature, we have a perfect right to ask where he proved the possibilities of human nature. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- See what tidings that horn tells us of--to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Edison himself tells the story of what happened. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
埃斯特拉編輯