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A discerning person can tell good from ordinary and chooses with care — especially about art, music, food, clothes, design. A discerning reader; a discerning audience. It is a compliment: you notice what other people miss, and your judgment is trusted. Ads are in love with it (‘for the discerning customer’), which though actually often just means ‘for people who will pay more.’ Used honestly, it is about having a good eye, not about being difficult. It is not . is and hard to please. Discerning sees quality. More at home in reviews and careful speech than in playground talk.
有眼光的;有鑑賞力的
組成discern (‘to see the difference / to judge well’) + -ing.
同家族的字
- discernthe verb: to see or tell the difference
- discernmentthe noun: the ability to judge well
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
discerningadj/dɪˈsɜː.nɪŋ/
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Of keen insight or selective judgement; perceptive.
- The discerning customer will appreciate our new range of quality clothing.
- Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
discerningnoun/dɪˈsɜː.nɪŋ/
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discernment
- Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。