tell

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɛl/|[tʰɛl]|[tʰɛɫ]    美 /tɛl/|[tʰɛl]|[tʰɛɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
    — Succoth is now associated with a large tell situated in the Jordan Valley, Deir Allah.
  2. 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.
  3. A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret. informal
    — Those whose business it is to verify luxury bags insist, at least publicly, that there’s always a “tell” to a superfake.
  4. That which is told; a tale or account. archaic
    — April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann I am at the end of my tell.
  5. A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper. Internet
动词 v.
  1. Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving; To determine the number, amount, or value of [something]. transitive
    — All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.
  2. Mental senses related to determining, reckoning, or perceiving; To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.) intransitive,transitive
    — I can tell that you're thrilled.
  3. 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.) intransitive,transitive
    — An expert can tell an original from a forgery.
  4. Social senses of communicating; To narrate, to recount. ditransitive,transitive
    — I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.
  5. Social senses of communicating; To convey by speech; to say. ditransitive,transitive
    — Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.
  6. Social senses of communicating; To instruct or inform. transitive
    — Please tell me how to do it.
  7. Social senses of communicating; To order; to direct, to say to someone. transitive
    — Tell him to go away.
  8. Social senses of communicating; To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer. transitive
  9. Social senses of communicating; To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing. childish,intransitive
    — I saw you steal those sweets! I'm telling!
  10. Social senses of communicating; To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show. intransitive
    — Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.
  11. Abstract senses related to showing or revealing; To show, be showing, be revealed. intransitive
    — 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.
  12. Abstract senses related to showing or revealing; To reveal. transitive
    — Time will tell what became of him.
  13. Abstract senses related to showing or revealing; To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated. intransitive
    — Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
number apprise make known snitch tattle
反义词
ask
衍生词
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相关词
dead giveaway

词源

词源 1
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, Swedish tala (“to speak”). More at tale.
词源 2
From Arabic تَلّ (tall, “hill, elevation”) or Hebrew תֵּל (tél, “hill”), from Proto-Semitic *tall- (“hill”).
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