tell off

基本解释

Dont tell off your boss and co-workers, even if you think they deserve it。
即使你认为他们该骂，也不要责骂你的上司和同事。
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却纷纷在她的博客中留言，愤怒地表示男女应该平等，有的建议她单独设立一个银行账户，有的让她教训一下她那横行霸道的丈夫，还有的甚至劝她离婚。

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，如果我们有一些系统定量的方法来判断,一个过程是否会自发进行,那就会更好了。
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Well first off, tell me what the problem is.
首先，先告诉我是什么问题。
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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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We had a couple people at CTIA last week -- people whose words carry weight -- tell us off the record that the next major version of Android would take big strides toward stopping the ugly trend toward severe fragmentation that has plagued the platform for much of this and last year.
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If you tell someone off, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.