tell somebody/something apart

phrasal verbphr v RECOGNIZEif you can tell two people or things apart, you can see the difference between them, so that you do not confuse them 区分，辨别 SYN distinguish

It’s almost impossible to tell the twins apart.

很难分清这对双胞胎。

Examples from the Corpus

tell apart• Eventually, by the eighteenth century each strain had so much affected the other that it became impossible to tell them apart.• He looked at me and said he often wondered how I told my books apart.• It was hard to tell them apart.• Once you expose these to the New York atmosphere for three or four months, you can not tell them apart.• Salesmen, traders, and managers swarmed over the floor, and at first I could not tell them apart.• The governments and towns have got to find some way of telling them apart.• It would be impossible to tell the results apart but the methods used to achieve them are very different.• They can tell each other apart by their distinctive songs.

→ tell somebody/something apart at tell(PHRASAL VERB)

单词	tell somebody/something apart
释义	tell somebody/something apart tell somebody/something apart phrasal verbphr v RECOGNIZEif you can tell two people or things apart, you can see the difference between them, so that you do not confuse them 区分，辨别 SYN distinguish It’s almost impossible to tell the twins apart. 很难分清这对双胞胎。 Examples from the Corpus tell apart• Eventually, by the eighteenth century each strain had so much affected the other that it became impossible to tell them apart.• He looked at me and said he often wondered how I told my books apart.• It was hard to tell them apart.• Once you expose these to the New York atmosphere for three or four months, you can not tell them apart.• Salesmen, traders, and managers swarmed over the floor, and at first I could not tell them apart.• The governments and towns have got to find some way of telling them apart.• It would be impossible to tell the results apart but the methods used to achieve them are very different.• They can tell each other apart by their distinctive songs. → tell somebody/something apart at tell(PHRASAL VERB)
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