to make a distinction

基本解釋

That contradiction thus allows us to make a distinction. It is not an absurd work that is involved here, but a work that propounds the absurd problem.
這種矛盾讓我們對(duì)此有所區(qū)別：這部小說(shuō)不是一部荒謬的作品，而是一部提出荒謬問(wèn)題的著作。
Molecular biologists have observed that people's cells often age at different rates, leading them to make a distinction between chronological and biological age.
分子生物學(xué)家觀察到，人體各種細(xì)胞衰老的速度是有差別的，因此細(xì)胞的時(shí)間年齡和生物學(xué)年齡并不同步。
Note carefully that the phrase is "principal" programming language, meaning the developer himself was forced to make a distinction as to what is their "principal" language.
請(qǐng)注意，這里使用了 “首選” 編程語(yǔ)言一詞，這意味著開(kāi)發(fā)人員自己需要區(qū)別什么是他們的 “首選” 語(yǔ)言。

Congress had to make a distinction between these and corporations and it's kind of a subtle distinction because there are lots of corporations that own real estate.
國(guó)會(huì)必須把它和公司區(qū)分開(kāi)來(lái),這種差別很微妙,因?yàn)楹芏喙疽渤钟蟹康禺a(chǎn)
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And so, they had to make a distinction.
他們必須要作出區(qū)分
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Let's pause it there, and as we said last time, it operates in that fashion, and that beginning gives us a good opportunity to make a distinction between two types of melody, between this idea of a motive and a theme.
稍微停一下,就像我們上次所說(shuō)的那樣,它是這樣,編排的,樂(lè)曲的開(kāi)始樂(lè)段給了我們很好的范例,來(lái)區(qū)分兩種旋律類型,區(qū)分動(dòng)機(jī)和主題
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The committee's general recommendations involved requiring professors at all universities to make a distinction in their classrooms between facts and their political opinions.
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