tells
基本解释
- v.告诉；吩咐；讲述；表达；辨别；判断；泄露；告发；产生效果
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的tellan，意为考虑。
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