辨别,分别
1. 区分;区别;辨别
If you can tell people or things apart, you are able to recognize the differences between them and can therefore identify each of them.
e.g. Perhaps it is the almost universal use of flavourings that makes it so hard to tell the products apart.
或许是因为调料的使用几乎千篇一律才使得那些产品难以区分开。
1. That failure to tell a humanitarian tragedy apart from a national rivalry is by no means limited to the very young.
2. Apart from an uneasiness to tell parents, they live a good life in bigger cities.
3. I've always wondered how one can correctly tell apart intentional groping from inappropriate touching as a result of overcrowding.
4. Zhu said most people interviewed knew little about the finless porpoise, some even could not tell them apart from the Baiji dolphin.
5. tell apart
5. To help tell them apart, the boys have a dot of maroon nail polish on their fingers.
6. Can we tell them apart from those in SoHo and Greenwich Village, let alone Midtown Manhattan?
7. Chinese and Koreans look similar, so much so that it is difficult to tell them apart on the street.
8. Marcia and Millie Biggs were hard to tell apart when they were born within minutes of each other a year ago.
9. She reveals two similar looking traditional Chinese clay tea pots and urges us to tell them apart.
10. But they were of the same height and it proved difficult to tell them apart.
verb
1. tell apart
1. mark as different
e.g. We distinguish several kinds of maple
Synonym: distinguish separate differentiate secern secernate severalize severalise tell
2. detect with the senses
e.g. The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
I can't make out the faces in this photograph
Synonym: spot recognize recognise distinguish discern pick out make out