Judging from the way he laughed as he told it, it was meant to be humorous.

从他讲述时笑的方式看来，那是为逗人发笑。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen, " he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."

后来他又做了一梦，也告诉他的哥哥们说：“看啊，我又做了一梦，梦见太阳，月亮与十一个星向我下拜。”

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He told me all the news but none of it was very exciting.

他告诉了我所有的新闻，但没有一件激动人心的。

《牛津词典》

His mother, the only woman, he had ever known told him to read the Bible and read it every day.

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I told you a story in which he wakes up,or his personality wakes up, however we should put it,in Michigan.

刚才的故事是，他醒来了，或说他的人格醒来了，地点是密西根。

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We're told later that he stops sleeping with her because he just can't get it out of his mind. He'd rather sit and wonder.

我们之后直到了他不再和她睡觉因为,他无法摆脱自己奇怪的想法，他宁愿坐着瞎想。

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