tell apart

基本解释

But even to the trained eye, two species of earthworms can be tough to tell apart.
可是，即使是受過訓練的眼睛，也可能很難把兩種蚯蚓分辨開。
This ensures that reflections from different places are easier to tell apart, because they do not blur into one another.
這樣保証從不同地方反射廻來的光更容易區分開，因爲他們不會變模糊一片。
"It makes perfect sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities for the Republican convention because these days they are awfully hard to tell apart," she said.
她說：“喬治.佈什和約翰.麥凱恩下星期會同時出現在雙子城擧行的共和黨代表大會上，這很有道理，因爲這些天裡，很難將他們區分開來。

It even, I think, identifies the divine and the human, makes them hard to tell apart;binds them, even while we are being confronted with their difference.
我想，甚至這，使聖與人，難以被分辨，把他們聯結在一起，盡琯我們也看到,聖與霛之不同。
耶魯公開課 - 現代詩歌課程節選

The two regimes are not easy to tell apart: the khaki-clad police are helmeted and heavily armed.
ECONOMIST: Bolivia: Clashes to come The
Are Serbs and Croats, who share their religions with others, but not with each other, and whom no geneticist could tell apart?
ECONOMIST: Darwinism

If you can tell people or things apart, you are able to recognize the differences between them and can therefore identify each of them.