| 单词 | discern | 
| 释义 | discern  (dɪsɜːʳn  )       Word forms:  discerns  ,  discerning  ,  discerned   1. verb  If you can discern something, you are aware of it and know what it is.  [formal]  You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend. [VERB noun]     It was hard to discern why this was happening. [VERB wh]    2. verb  If you can discern something, you can just see it, but not clearly.  [formal]  Below the bridge we could just discern a narrow, weedy ditch. [VERB noun]    Synonyms:  see, perceive, make out, notice     Collocations:  discern a pattern It has been hard to discern a pattern through it all, never mind progress.  Times,Sunday Times  He was quick to discern a pattern.  Times, Sunday Times  Irritating as these seemingly random encounters seem, gradually you'll discern a pattern, one that's taking you into unknown yet potentially thrilling territory.  Times, Sunday Times  A confidence in the value of research, of seeing things as they are and trying to discern the pattern therein remain key engines of her writing.  The Times Literary Supplement  Participants work to discern the pattern.  Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0   If one manages to discern their shape, and slowly make out their features, one can lose them immediately one takes one's eye off.  Times, Sunday Times  Help them to discern the shape of their calling.  Christianity Today  Only the two largest regular moons have been imaged with a resolution sufficient to discern their shapes and surface features.  Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0   Translations: Chinese: 认识 Japanese: 認識する  | 
	
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