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单词 distinguish
释义
distinguish
verb
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/us
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
B2[IorT,not continuous]
tonoticeorunderstandthedifferencebetween two things, or to make onepersonor thingseemdifferent from another:
区分，分辨；使有所区别
He'scolour-blindand can't distinguish (thedifference)betweenredandgreeneasily.他是色盲，很难分清红色和绿色（的不同）。
I sometimes havedifficultydistinguishingSpanishfromPortuguese.我有时很难分清西班牙语和葡萄牙语。
It'simportantto distinguishbetweenbusinessandpleasure.分清什么是正事什么是娱乐非常重要。
It's not thebeautyso much as therangeof hisvoicethat distinguishes himfromothertenors.他与其他男高音大不相同，并非因为他那华美的声音，而是他宽广的音域。
distinguishyourself
to do something so well that you areadmiredandpraisedfor it:
使自己出类拔萃，表现突出
He distinguished himself as awriterat a very earlyage.他年纪轻轻就成为一名出类拔萃的作家。
Atschool, she distinguished herself as anoutstandingdebater.
Hequicklydistinguished himself in hischosencareer.
He didn'tespeciallydistinguish himself in anyparticularfield, asfaras Irecall.
Richardsonrapidlydistinguished himself with hisdiligenceandindustry.
More examples
  • Theylooksosimilarit's oftendifficultto distinguish one from the other.
  • Themalebirddisplaysseveralcharacteristicswhich distinguish him from thefemale.
  • It's hiseyefordetailthat distinguishes him as apainter.
  • It can bedifficultto distinguish betweenpoisonousandediblemushrooms.
  • Teachers have tolearnto distinguish betweenbehaviourproblemsassociatedwithlearningdifficultiesandbehaviourproblemslinkedto somethingelse.
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(Definition ofdistinguishfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
distinguish
verb
uk
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/us
/dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
B2[IorT,not continuous]
tonoticeorunderstandthedifferencebetween two things, or to make onepersonor thingseemdifferent from another
区分，分辨；使有所区别
He'scolour-blindand can't distinguish (thedifference)betweenredandgreeneasily.他是色盲，很难分清红色和绿色（的不同）。
I sometimes havedifficultydistinguishingSpanishfromPortuguese.我有时很难分清西班牙语和葡萄牙语。
It'simportantto distinguishbetweenbusinessandpleasure.分清什么是正事什么是娱乐非常重要。
It's not thebeautyso much as therangeof hisvoicethat distinguishes himfromothertenors.他与其他男高音大不相同，并非因为他那华美的声音，而是他宽广的音域。
distinguishyourself
to do something so well that you areadmiredandpraisedfor it
使自己出类拔萃，表现突出
He distinguished himself as awriterat a very earlyage.他年纪轻轻就成为一名出类拔萃的作家。
More examples
  • Theylooksosimilarit's oftendifficultto distinguish one from the other.
  • Themalebirddisplaysseveralcharacteristicswhich distinguish him from thefemale.
  • It's hiseyefordetailthat distinguishes him as apainter.
  • It can bedifficultto distinguish betweenpoisonousandediblemushrooms.
  • Teachers have tolearnto distinguish betweenbehaviourproblemsassociatedwithlearningdifficulties andbehaviourproblemslinkedto somethingelse.

distinguish| American Dictionary

distinguish
verb[I/T]
us
/dɪˈstɪŋ·ɡwɪʃ/

distinguishverb[I/T](SEPARATE)

torecognizeorunderstandthedifferencebetween two things, or toprovideaqualitythat makes someone or something different orspecial:
[Ialways+ adv/prep]It’simportantto distinguish betweenscientificfactandfiction.
[T]Samuel F. B. Morse distinguished himself both as aninventorand as apainter.

distinguishverb[I/T](SEE/HEAR)

tosee,hear, orexperiencesomething,esp. withdifficulty:
In thedark, I couldbarelydistinguish theshapeof aperson.
(Definition ofdistinguishfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistinguish

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Embryogenesis is traditionally divided into a series of consecutive stages distinguished by morphological markers.
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Our approach determines, from all possible combinations of disjoint probability distributions, the set of distributions that most effectively distinguishes functional sites from non-functional sequences.
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In this example, three levels of priority are distinguished for reported problems.
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Stoicism distinguished man's animal from his higher nature.
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The latter are concerned with the global and abstract while the former were distinguished by their concern with the local and particular.
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Visit status distinguished first-time visits from return visits to a practice.
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By its self-definition, at any rate, formal verse satire was distinguished not by its resemblance to other forms but by its difference from them.
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The types of falsehood exposed are many and rarely distinguished systematically by the satirists themselves.
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The theological infinite, then, is distinguished from the mathematical infinite in that the theological infinite is defined only by the lack of limits or bounds.
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A major way in which a semantic type of verb is distinguished is by the semantic roles associated with the verbs comprising the type.
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Later grammarians tried to be more careful in distinguishing written marks from speech sounds.
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The two 'negative' symptoms which distinguished the two groups at a statistically significant level were 'loss of interest' and 'diminished concentration'.
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The town was a community whose members were distinguished from the surrounding population by the privileges they enjoyed.
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More importantly, constitutional experts have found considerable difficulty in distinguishing federal states from unitary ones.
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In addition, different elements can be distinguished because the scattered energies are determined by the masses of the target atoms.
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