| 单词 | discern |
| 释义 | discern (once / 315 pages) v If you can make out, pick out, or distinguish something, you can discern it. This is a word for recognizing and perceiving things. Discerning has to do with being able to see or hear something. In a loud room, it can be hard to discern one person's voice. If there's not much light, you'll have trouble discerning the words on a page well enough to read. If you have sloppy handwriting, then it's hard to discern what you wrote. When you can discern something, you can tell what it is; you can identify it. WORD FAMILYdiscern: discernable, discerned, discernible, discerning, discernment, discerns+/discernable: discernability, discernably/discernible: discernibly, indiscernible/discerning: discerningly, undiscerning/discernment: discernments/indiscernible: indiscernibly/undiscerning: undiscerningly USAGE EXAMPLESAfter this year of fake news in US politics and elsewhere, I am hopeful that consumers of news will become much more discerning. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) In an era of fake news, it pays to be a more discerning news consumer. Salon(Dec 30, 2016) To be sure, researchers were not always able to discern a clear connection between climate change and the events they examined. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) v detect with the senses Syn|Hypo distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart resolve make clearly visible discriminatedistinguish |
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