| 单词 | distinction |
| 释义 | distinction (dɪstɪŋkʃən ) Word forms: distinctions 1. countable noun B2 A distinction between similar things is a difference. There are obvious distinctions between the two wine-making areas. [+ between] The distinction between craft and fine art is more controversial. draw/make a distinction phrase If you draw a distinction or make a distinction, you say that two things are different. I did not yet make a distinction between the pleasures of reading and of writing fiction. He draws a distinction between art and culture. 2. uncountable noun Distinction is the quality of being very good or better than other things of the same type. [formal] Lewis emerges as a composer of distinction and sensitivity. ...pieces of furniture of distinction. Synonyms: excellence, note, quality, worth 3. countable noun A distinction is a special award or honour that is given to someone because of their very high level of achievement. The order was created in 1902 as a special distinction for eminent men and women. I did an M.A. at Liverpool University in Latin American Studies and got a distinction. 4. singular noun If you say that someone or something has the distinction of being something, you are drawing attention to the fact that they have the special quality of being that thing. Distinction is normally used to refer to good qualities, but can sometimes also be used to refer to bad qualities. He has the distinction of being regarded as the country's greatest living writer. [+ of] Synonyms: feature, quality, characteristic, name Collocations: achieve a distinction There have been a total of 85 players to achieve this distinction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It had a 3.3 per cent market share, was losing millions of pounds every quarter and had achieved the distinction of issuing four profit warnings in one year. Times, Sunday Times Only six percent of hospitals across the country, and fewer than 400 hospitals worldwide, have achieved this distinction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One of only 8 schools nationally have achieved this distinction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There is a subtle but crucial distinction between separation and isolation. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The crucial distinction in the clans was between those who worked and those who fought. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002) It has acknowledged, firmly and publicly, that some things are just for adults, and this is a crucial distinction. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Not to mention that small matter of earning himself the dubious distinction of presiding over six successive losses. ST That dubious distinction will go to abigger name who will be expected to work under impossible conditions before leaving with his reputation in shreds. The Sun Success for many pastors lies in the dubious distinction of being the congregation's lead comforter. Christianity Today After the dubious distinction of becoming the first former champions to drop to the fourth division, crowds of more than 25,000 broke all records. Times, Sunday Times In 1931, he had the dubious distinction of leading the league with 24 losses with a high 5.09 earned run average. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He went on to earn the distinction of never being dropped during his 20-cap international career as a flanker. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A game can earn this distinction if it meets certain sales criteria within two years after its release. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also earned a distinction in his grade 8 piano. Times, Sunday Times Few academics can have earned the distinction of being expelled from universities in different countries, in different decades, simply because of identity politics. The Times Literary Supplement He earned the distinction as the league's top goalscorer in 1973 (13 goals) and in 1975 (19 goals). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They sought to plunge players into the fiction and never provide an opportunity for breaking that fiction; and so they tried to erase the distinction between plot and exploration. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Confusingly, such diagrams usually label this radial dimension saturation, blurring or erasing the distinction between saturation and chroma. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The symmetry of and in this version erases the distinction between upper and lower, and the two functions are then called polarities rather than adjoints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But we make a false distinction between myth and history, as if between the unreal and the real. Times, Sunday Times They make a false distinction between clinical skills and 'hands-on' care requiring less knowledge. Times, Sunday Times In the past we have made a false distinction between pure and applied knowledge and have made judgments on the respective worth of each. Times, Sunday Times It seems a fine distinction. Times, Sunday Times Such writing requires not only an eye that recognizes the unusual and fine distinction, but an eye that offers re-vision too. The Times Literary Supplement It agreed that few consumers could make such a fine distinction. Times, Sunday Times It's a very fine distinction. Times, Sunday Times Not all were penalised but, recognising the fine distinctions, a penalty would be awarded for what was interpreted as dangerous play in a wilful collision. Times, Sunday Times How should we understand the most fundamental distinction, between philosophy and literature, presupposed in this book? The Times Literary Supplement As police and prosecutors seek to interpret the laws on incitement more broadly, they are blurring the fundamental distinction between words and deeds. Times, Sunday Times But there could be a meeting of minds if both appreciated the fundamental distinction between buildings and the value of the land on which they stand. Times, Sunday Times While the definition clearly has several variants, they all make the fundamental distinction between shared leadership and more traditional notions of hierarchical leadership. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fundamental distinction has to do with attitudes towards modernism and popular culture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But there is an important distinction to be made here. Christianity Today (2000) That raises an important distinction between bonds and equities. Times, Sunday Times (2014) This subculture had its own important social distinctions. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993) But he never reached the glittering heights that might have been expected in a man of his intellectual distinction. Times, Sunday Times It's a subtle but crucial difference that gives this book its intellectual distinction. Times, Sunday Times Academics are famously adept at escalating minor intellectual distinctions into take-no-prisoners civil wars. Times, Sunday Times Sport's arbitrariness hints at a key distinction between sport and life. Times, Sunday Times I consider the key distinction between my summer and winter wardrobe and decide that it primarily involves switching from trainers to flip-flops. Times, Sunday Times Experts said this was a key distinction. Times, Sunday Times The key distinction between clauses and formulas completely disappeared; formulas can now have free variables; and clauses are now a subset of formulas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was a ground-breaking discovery, as previously a key distinction between viruses and bacteria had been that viruses were believed to lack enzymes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many e-scooters owners will not realise - or will simply choose to ignore - any legal distinction. Times,Sunday Times The answer involves the legal distinction between two kinds of tenancy. Times, Sunday Times It dealt with the status of the trustee against whom the claim was made, introducing a legal distinction between his two capacities, personal and fiduciary. Times, Sunday Times Before 1848 there was a legal distinction between stad and non-stad parts of the country, but the word no longer has any legal significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some jurisdictions decline to recognize any legal distinction between fact and opinion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ordinary mortals, however, will struggle to discern meaningful distinction. Times, Sunday Times That was only a meaningful distinction if legal ownership meant something different from beneficial ownership. Times, Sunday Times By the same token, there was a meaningful distinction of the same kind between assets held beneficially and those held otherwise than beneficially which were all within the new words. Times, Sunday Times Meaningful distinctions, these scholars assert, can be drawn from varying lengths and angles of dash, and differing arrangements of text on the page. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Writers over the last decades have attempted to salvage meaningful distinctions between the words from the confused wreckage of historical sources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Numerical comparisons pass over this vital moral distinction. The Times Literary Supplement Should there be a moral distinction between a 42in television screen and the 65in? Times, Sunday Times There isn't a moral distinction to be made here. Times, Sunday Times He reserves special irritation for vegetarians who 'still eat fish', 'as if there were no moral distinction between a cod and a cucumber'. Times, Sunday Times This has led to attempts to find a relevant moral distinction between the two cases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It requires a culture change among trainers and owners accustomed to no obvious distinction between meetings other than prize money. Times, Sunday Times Moving, the cell stretches out and takes a more typical amoeboid form, with an obvious distinction between the clear periphery and pseudopods and the greenish interior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most obvious distinctions are between single and multiple strandings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 To understand recursion, one must recognize the distinction between a procedure and the running of a procedure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A postmodernist approach to popular culture would no longer recognize the distinction between high and popular culture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many mycologists do not recognize the distinction; however, several molecular studies have demonstrated that they are two distinct genera, with clear morphological differences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This means that the long sixteenth century may be thought of as already recognizing the distinction between positive and negative liberty, although 'not yet dominated by it'. The Times Literary Supplement Some courts have recognized a distinction authorizing police to demand identifying information and specifically imposing an obligation of a suspect to respond. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If there really were a rigid distinction between precipitate and precipitous, he wouldn't need to condemn the purported ignorance of those who ignore it. Times, Sunday Times That purpose would be defeated by a rigid distinction between different stages of the same litigation. Times, Sunday Times Dualism maintains a rigid distinction between the realms of mind and matter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While no rigid distinction exists between consumer speakers and studio monitors, manufacturers more and more accent the difference in their marketing material. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They'll include some or all of the purportedly rigid distinctions between disinterested and uninterested, imply and infer, anticipate and expect, flout and flaunt, and refute and deny. Times, Sunday Times This isn't merely a semantic distinction. Times, Sunday Times The court also rejected the semantic distinction between studying and use made by the district court, finding it to be artificial. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We have these subtle syntactical distinctions because they make subtle semantic distinctions. Globe and Mail Although infants concepts may be crude by adult standards, they still allow infants to make meaningful semantic distinctions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Was it hard to maintain the sharp distinction between good and evil that the films have? The Sun You moderns have built your civilization by making this sharp distinction between the public and private spheres. Christianity Today Whereas traditional houses make a sharp distinction between the inside and outside spaces, contemporary living connects the indoors with the outdoors. Times, Sunday Times He drew a sharp distinction between his personal life and his job. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Functional theories of grammar tend to dismiss the sharp distinction between competence and performance, and particularly the primacy given to the study of competence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The reason for the ostensibly subtle distinction was based on the difference between constitutative and adjudicative jurisdiction. Times, Sunday Times He has also wrestled with the subtle distinction between a pirate and a parrot, between larceny and license. Christianity Today Connoisseurs recognise a subtle distinction between two kinds of trashy television. Times, Sunday Times It's a subtle distinction — the idea that, yes, we're brilliant, but no, not better than everyone else. Times, Sunday Times At best one could draw a subtle distinction between selfishness and self-interest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 区分 Japanese: 区別 |
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