tell off

基本解釋

Dont tell off your boss and co-workers, even if you think they deserve it。
即使你認爲他們該罵，也不要責罵你的上司和同事。
But all sorts of strangers suddenly blogged back with angry feminist advice, advising her to get a separate bank account, to tell off her bullying husband, and even to leave him.
但是形形色色的陌生人卻紛紛在她的博客中畱言，憤怒地表示男女應該平等，有的建議她單獨設立一個銀行賬戶，有的讓她教訓一下她那橫行霸道的丈夫，還有的甚至勸她離婚。

Bob Doughty and Faith Lapidus tell about some of the winning American athletes on and off the ice and snow.
OK, clearly we'd be much better off if we had some systematic quantitative way to tell whether something would happen spontaneously.
好，如果我們有一些系統(tǒng)定量的方法來判斷,一個過程是否會自發(fā)進行,那就會更好了。
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Well first off, tell me what the problem is.
首先，先告訴我是什麼問題。
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You would think that somebody could be able to tell right off whether a particular real estate activity constitutes a trade or business.
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If you tell someone off, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.