- 1分得出來的；可辨認的
If something is distinguishable, you can tell it apart from something else. The two boats were barely distinguishable in the fog. His voice is distinguishable from his ’s if you listen for the softer R. The word often comes with from, and it often comes with barely, hardly, or easily. It does not mean the thing is special or stylish. A very ordinary chair is still distinguishable from a table. The opposite, and the word you will hear even more, is indistinguishable: you cannot tell them apart. Distinguishable is a little formal — more a book and classroom word than a text-message word — but the idea is everyday: can you see the difference, or can’t you?
組成distinguish (to tell things apart) + -able (can be done).
同家族的字
- distinguishthe verb: to tell things apart
- indistinguishablethe opposite: you cannot tell them apart
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
distinguishableadj[dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
- 1
Able, or easily able to be distinguished.
- Black is very distinguishable against a white background
- So much does creative wisdom [of Divine Providence] seem to delight in variety, that, tame only a nest of small birds—starlings or sparrows—and you will soon perceive that these birds will not only be distinguishable by bodily appearance, but also by individuality of temper. The same diversity of disposition pervades all creation, even the vegetable and mineral kingdoms, and is far more perceptible in the human species, where the variations are endless and minute, between the two extremes of greatest and least ability and aptitude. Education will always do a great deal; yet where, by infinite labour, you can excite and impress the dull faculties of one brother or sister till they have got versed by rote in any lesson of art or science, another will catch up the idea at once with such aptitude as might make you suppose it intuitive in his or her constitution.
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