tell off

分派； 斥责；数，计算

The Internet lets your customers sound off and tell you exactly what they like or don't like about your business.(互联网让你的客户享有更多畅所欲言的机会，说出他们真实的想法，喜欢你什么，不喜欢你什么。)

But I must tell you how it went off.(我一定要把经过情形告诉你。)

Off with you, boys, and tell the sheriff--get your breakfast tomorrow morning!(去吧，男孩们，去告诉警长——明天早上再吃早饭吧！)

I know some guys will just tell them off?(我知道一些小伙子们只是责备她们？)

"Then tell him to stop showing off," said John.(“那就告诉他别再炫耀了。”约翰说。)

And that starts to tell us where to draw off How many screens do we need?(这开始启示我们从哪里去提取，我们需要多少屏幕？)

Sergeant Long will hit the roof when I tell him you've gone off.(如果我告诉朗警官你已经走了，他一定会怒火冲天的。)

Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk or if you are acting like one!(上了岁数的女人都会变得很坦诚，如果你是一个傻子或者你的行为很愚蠢，她们就会很直接的告诉你！)

They can tell the distance of various objects by how quickly the sound waves bounce back off them.(他们可以通过声波反弹的速度来判断不同物体之间的距离。)

I can't tell my son what to do; it's water off a duck's back with him.(我无法告诉我儿子该做什么，他根本听不进去。)

verb

1. reprimand

e.g. She told the misbehaving student off

Synonym: brush down

1. 斥责;训斥;训诫
If you tell someone off, you speak to them angrily or seriously because they have done something wrong.

e.g. He never listened to us when we told him off...
我们教训他时，他从来不听。
e.g. I'm always being told off for being so awkward...
我笨手笨脚的，总挨训。