| 词组 | distinguish |
| 释义 | distinguish When distinguish is used with a preposition, the preposition is most likely to be either between or from. They are used with about equal frequency: • ... a child under four will hardly distinguish between yesterday and a week ago —Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life, 1926 • ... a transistorized instrument accurate enough to distinguish between sandy, hard, or rocky bottom — Jan Adkins, Harper's, October 1971 • It had its stone wall ... to protect it, distinguishing it from an open village —G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History, 1942 • ... permits us to distinguish the styles of the North American Indians ... from those of the better-known African, Mesoamerican and South Pacific primitive cultures —Barbara Rose, New York, 10 Jan. 1972 Less often, distinguish is used with among. From the few examples which we have of among, it seems that the writers may have been influenced by the notion that between can be used only of two items and that among must be used for more than two: • ... impossible to distinguish among the fat vases, fancy lampshades, and ladies' hats —David Denby, Atlantic, September 1971 See between 1. Very infrequently, distinguish may be used with into: • The following is a summary of the various suggestions ... distinguished into the following categories —Felix M. Keesing, Social Anthropology in Polynesia, 1953 And we have one citation for distinguish with above: • ... what distinguishes his memoir above others —S. L. A. Marshall, Saturday Rev., 17 Apr. 1954 |
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