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Discern Hard   [V Discerning Verb 动词 N   [Formal

英语单词 discern
英美音标 英 [dɪ'sɜːn] 美 [dɪ'sɜːrn]
中文释义 v.辨别;看出;察觉
英语例句 (1) Sometimes it's not easy to discern between the true and the false.
(2) He was just able to discern the road in the dark.
(3) They can discern me in spite of the fog.
(4) I soon discerned that the man was lying.
中文例句 (1) 有时辨别真伪并不容易。
(2) 他在黑暗中勉强能辨出道路。
(3) 虽然有雾,但他们能认得出我。
(4) 我马上察觉出那人在撒谎。
vocabulary简明 If you can make out, pick out, or distinguish something, you can discern it. This is a word for recognizing and perceiving things.
vocabulary扩展 Discerning has to do with being able to see or hear something. In a loud room, it can be hard to discern one person's voice. If there's not much light, you'll have trouble discerning the words on a page well enough to read. If you have sloppy handwriting, then it's hard to discern what you wrote. When you can discern something, you can tell what it is; you can identify it.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]觉察出;知道;了解;辨明 If you can discern something, you are aware of it and know what it is.
  [V n]
  [V wh]
  [Also V that]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend...

    你需要一长串的数据才能看出这一趋势。

  • It was hard to discern why this was happening.

    很难弄清楚这为什么会发生。

2
[VERB 动词]依稀看出;分辨出 If you can discern something, you can just see it, but not clearly.
  [V n]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.

    我们仅能依稀辨出桥下一条杂草丛生的窄沟。

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