discern

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈsɜːn/|/dəˈsøːn/|/dɪˈzɜːn/    美 /dɪˈsɝn/|/dɪˈsɜːn/|/dɪˈzɝn/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes. transitive
    — Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.
  2. To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry. transitive
    — If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.
  3. To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate. transitive
    — He was too young to discern right from wrong.
  4. To perceive differences. intransitive

词形变化

discerns present,singular,third-person discerning participle,present discerned participle,past discerned past

词汇关系

近义词
behold see spy distinguish
衍生词
discernability discernable discernance discernible discernment indiscernible misdiscern undiscerned

词源

From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to distinguish”); see certain.
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