Telling

Definition

tell /tel/ v ( pt, pp told /tǝƱld/) ၁။ ~ sth (to sb) ေျပာသည္။ ေျပာျပသည္။ tell jokes/stories ❍ He told the news to everybody in the office. ❍ Did she tell you her name? ❍ They've told us (that) they're not coming. ❍ Tell me where you live. ❍ I can't tell you (ie I cannot find words to express) how happy I am. ❍ They've split up—or so I've been told/so I'm told (ie That is what I have been told). ❍ (used for emphasis): It's not cheap, I can tell you. ❍ It's impossible, I tell you! ၂။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ ၫႊန္ျပသည္။ This book tells you all you need to know about buying a house. ❍ This gauge tells you the amount of petrol you have left/how much petrol you have left. ❍ The instructions tell you to replace the filter every 3 months. ၃။ ေျပာသည္။ tell lies/the truth. ❍ say ၄။ ဖြင့္ဟ သည္။ ထုတ္ေျပာသည္။ ေဖာက္သည္ခ်သည္။ Promise you won't tell. ❍ ( infml ) kiss and tell (ie reveal one's love affairs). ၅။ (က) သိႏိုင္သည္။ ေျပာႏိုင္သည္။ It may rain or it may not. It's hard to tell. ❍ You can tell (that) he's angry when he starts shouting a lot. ❍ How do you tell when to change gear? ❍ The only way to tell if you like something is by trying it. (ခ) ~ A from B (esp with can/could/be able to ) (ခြဲျခား) ႏိုင္သည္။ I can't tell the difference between margarine and butter (ie cannot identify them by their tastes). ❍ Can you tell Tom from his twin brother? ❍ It's difficult to tell them apart. ❍ These kittens look exactly alike—how can you tell which is which? ၆။ ~ (on sb) စကားေျပာသည္။ The strain was beginning to tell (on the rescue team). ❍ Her lack of experience told against her (ie was a disadvantage to her). ၇။ ေျပာသည္။ ဆိုသည္။ ခိုင္းသည္။ Tell him to wait. ❍ The doctor told me to eat more fresh fruit. ❍ I kept telling myself to keep calm (ie kept repeating it mentally). ❍ Do what I tell you. ❍ Children must do as they're told. ❍ You won't be told (ie won't obey orders or listen to advice), will you? ❍ order ❏ all told [ IDM ] အကုန္လံုး။ စုစုေပါင္း။ There are 23 guests coming, all told. ❏ I/I'll tell you what [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အႀကံေပးျခင္း) ငါေျပာမယ္…။ I'll tell you what—let's go to the cinema instead. ❏ I told you (so) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ငါေျပာသားပဲ။ He loves to say ‘I told you so!’ when things go wrong. ❏ live, etc to tell the tale [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးတည္း ေသေဘးမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ❏ tell its own tale/story [ IDM ] ေျပာစရာမလို၊ ရွင္းေနတာပဲ။ The empty whisky bottle rolling on the floor told its own tale. ❏ tell me another! [ IDM ] ( infml ) မင္းေျပာတာငါမယံုဘူး။ ❏ tell of sth [ PHRV ] အသိေပးသည္။ ေၾကာ္ျငာသည္။ notices telling of the proposed job cuts. ❏ tell sb off (for sth/doing sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ဆူသည္။ ႀကိမ္းသည္။ You'll get told off if you're caught doing that. ❍ I told the boys off for making so much noise. ❏ tell on sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တိုင္သည္။ တိုင္ေျပာသည္။ John caught his sister smoking and told on her. ❏ tell-tale n ( infml derog ) ေဖာ္ေကာင္။ Don't be such a tell-tale! adj သဲလြန္စ။ ေျခရာ။ tell-tale clues/marks/signs/sounds ❍ the tell-tale smell of cigarette smoke (ie revealing that sb has been smoking). ❏ tell tales (about sb) [ IDM ] အတင္းအဖ်င္းေျပာသည္။ Someone's been telling tales about me, haven't they? ❏ tell the time; ( US ) tell time [ IDM ] နာရီၾကည့္တတ္သည္။ She's only five—she hasn't learnt to tell the time yet. ❏ tell sb where to get off/where they get off [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆက္သည္းခံမည္မဟုတ္ဟု သတိေပးသည္။ ရပ္တန္းက ရပ္ရန္ေျပာသည္။ ❏ telling adj ထိေရာက္ေသာ။ a telling argument/example/remark. ❏ tellingly adv ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္။ ❏ telling-off n (usu sing ) ဩဘာ။ His teacher gave him a telling-off for being late three days running. ❏ to tell (you) the truth [ IDM ] (ဝန္ခံသည့္အခါ ေျပာေသာ) အမွန္ကိုေျပာရလွ်င္…။ To tell the truth, I fell asleep in the middle. ❏ you can never tell; you never can tell [ IDM ] ဧကန္ ဧက ေျပာရခက္သားပဲ။ ❏ you're telling me! [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဟုတ္လိုက္ေလ။ မေျပာပါႏွင့္ေတာ့။

Examples

1. If you see anything suspicious
2. tell the police.
3. [tell someone (that)] : Didn’t he tell you that I wanted to see you?
4. The passengers were told their flight was about to depart.
5. [tell someone who/what/why/how etc] : Just tell me what she said.
6. Were you told when she would be arriving?
7. [tell someone something] : He finally told me the reason why he was so upset.
8. [tell someone (something) about something] : ‘Tell me about your day
9. ’ she said.
10. I haven’t been told anything about it.
11. [tell the truth/a lie] : I promise to tell the truth
12. the whole truth
13. and nothing but the truth.
14. He tells some absolute whoppers (=big lies) sometimes.
15. Grandpa tells wonderful stories about the old days.
16. [tell someone something] : Shall I tell you a joke?
17. The facts themselves don’t tell us much.
18. Her look of surprise told him that he had guessed right.
19. The flashing light tells you when the battery needs recharging.
20. What does this room tell you about the person who lived here?
21. [tell its own story/tale] : His troubled face told its own story.
22. I’m not asking you – I’m telling you!
23. [tell someone to do something] : I told you to be here on time this morning.
24. [tell someone what/how/when etc] : I told him what to do
25. but he wouldn’t listen.
26. You will be told where to sit.
27. [do as/what you’re told] : Do as you’re told this minute!
28. He’s lying. I can always tell.
29. [tell (that)] : Peter could tell that she was bored.
30. [tell who/what/whether etc] : It’s never easy to tell whether he’s being serious or not.
31. Which is which? I can’t tell.
32. [tell something/someone from something/someone] : Can you tell butter from margarine?
33. They’re so alike I can never tell one from the other.
34. [tell the difference (between)] : These days it’s hard to tell the difference between political parties.
35. [tell on] : These endless business trips are telling on his marriage.
36. [begin/start to tell] : The strain of the last few days was beginning to tell.
37. You promised you wouldn’t tell.
38. [tell on] : She threatened to tell on me.