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tell off

说出,说,说谎,说话

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : informal to reprimand; scoldthey told me off for stealing apples
    • : to count and dismisshe told off four more soldiers

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Examples

  • As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • Police, their representatives and supporters tell us, ensure our freedom of speech through our ability to protest.

  • “Jeffrey wanted me to tell you that you looked so pretty,” the female voice said into my disbelieving ear.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

  • Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.

  • Monsieur,” growls the baron, “stone walls have ears, you say if only they had tongues; what tales these could tell!