discern
v. 察覺出,瞭解; 分辨出
If you can discern something, you are aware of it and know what it is.
You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend...
你需要一長串的資料才能看出這一趨勢。
It was hard to discern why this was happening.
很難弄清楚這為什麼會發生。
If you can discern something, you can just see it, but not clearly.
Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch.
我們僅能依稀辨出橋下一條雜草叢生的窄溝。
1. detect with the senses;
discern, discriminate, distinguish
這些動詞均有"區別,辨別"之意。
In the breaking and remarking , in the timing, interweaving, beginning afresh, the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.
在作家的思路中斷重新構思的時候, 在安排時間 、 揉和內容 、 重新開始的時候, 逐步領悟到自己素材中的內容,而這些東西在他動筆時心中並不清楚.
The man couldn't discern between right and wrong.
那人是非分辨不清.
He almost could not discern the road in the dark.
他幾乎不能在黑暗中辨認出路來.
It is easy to discern a connection between high rents and the lack of housing.
顯而易見,高房租和住房缺乏是彼此相關的.
At first, we could only discern a blob.
一開始, 我們只能看到一團東西.