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If something is indiscernible, it is so faint, small, or mixed in that you can hardly see, hear, or notice it. A sound behind a wall, a mark on dark cloth, a change in someone's face — if you almost cannot catch it, it is indiscernible. People also use it when two things are so alike that you cannot tell them apart: the difference was indiscernible. It is a careful, rather formal word. You will meet it in writing, in science, and in polite speech, not much in the playground. Though actually, speakers sometimes reach for it when they only mean “very hard to see,” not “impossible to see” — the line is a little soft in real use.
難以察覺的;難以分辨的
組成in- (not) + discern (notice / tell apart) + -ible (able to be)
同家族的字
- discernthe verb at the heart of it: to notice or tell things apart
- discerniblethe opposite: able to be noticed or told apart
- discernmentthe noun: the ability to notice or 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。
indiscernibleadj
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Not capable of being discerned or perceived.
- The details of the room were indiscernible, lost in yellowish shadow.
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Not capable of being distinguished from something else.
indiscerniblenoun
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesSomething which is incapable of being discerned.
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。