| 词汇 | tell apart |
| 释义 | Idiom tell aparttell (someone/something) apart to be able to see the difference between one person or thing and another.One guy's a Democrat and the other's a Republican, but it wasn't always easy to tell them apart.The twins are no longer as hard to tell apart as when they were little babies.She held out two flowers, but I couldn't tell which was which. Phr V tell apart tells, telling, told tell sb/sth apart to be able to see the differences between two similar things or people and judge which is whichWhen they were small, the twins looked so alike that I just couldn't tell them apart. sometimes + fromIt's impossible to tell a forged $10 note apart from a real one. tell sb/sth apart not progressive if you can tell people or things apart, you can see the difference between them, so that you recognize each of them and do not confuse them: The twins looked so alike that only their parents could tell them apart.be difficult/hard/impossible to tell sth apart Except for the difference in eye colour, it's impossible to tell the males and females apart.■ SIMILAR TO: distinguish tell (someone or something) apartTo be able to discern or distinguish two or more people or things that appear or seem similar. This one is real, and this one is the counterfeit—you can tell them apart by the small holographic mark at the top corner of the genuine document. Even our parents sometimes have trouble telling me and my brother apart. tell apartDiscern or distinguish, as in It's hard to tell the twins apart. [First half of 1900s] tell apartv. To perceive something as being different or distinct from something else: I couldn't tell apart the real $20 bill from the counterfeit one. The twins were identical, and we couldn't tell them apart. |
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