He tried to hide his embarrassment by telling jokes.

他想通过讲笑话来掩饰尴尬。

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I'll start by telling you roughly what Green Peace is all about.

我先简单地告诉你什么是绿色和平组织。

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All the way she tried to cheer him up by telling him again and again of the coming summer days.

一路上，她一遍又一遍地告诉他夏天就要来了，想使他高兴起来。

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Ford himself put an end to his chances by telling the nation that it was "perfectly safe with Coolidge."

VOA: special.2011.01.27

Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

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They're in a -the first thing to understand is that -I start out by telling you the story of the goldsmith banker.

它们...,首先要弄明白的是,在一开始我讲了金匠银行家的故事

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By telling his tale on national TV, Edwards made his private life a legitimate story.

NPR: John Edwards And The Role Of The Media

Saint realized most people couldn't be won over "by telling them facts or statistics, " he says.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But Nush tried to make it up by telling Gae to give her a hug.

BBC: Daily house goss: week five