to make a distinction

基本解释

That contradiction thus allows us to make a distinction. It is not an absurd work that is involved here, but a work that propounds the absurd problem.
這種矛盾讓我們對此有所區別：這部小說不是一部荒謬的作品，而是一部提出荒謬問題的著作。
Molecular biologists have observed that people's cells often age at different rates, leading them to make a distinction between chronological and biological age.
分子生物學家觀察到，人躰各種細胞衰老的速度是有差別的，因此細胞的時間年齡和生物學年齡竝不同步。
Note carefully that the phrase is "principal" programming language, meaning the developer himself was forced to make a distinction as to what is their "principal" language.
請注意，這裡使用了 “首選” 編程語言一詞，這意味著開發人員自己需要區別什麽是他們的 “首選” 語言。

Congress had to make a distinction between these and corporations and it's kind of a subtle distinction because there are lots of corporations that own real estate.
國會必須把它和公司區分開來,這種差別很微妙,因爲很多公司也持有房地産
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And so, they had to make a distinction.
他們必須要作出區分
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Let's pause it there, and as we said last time, it operates in that fashion, and that beginning gives us a good opportunity to make a distinction between two types of melody, between this idea of a motive and a theme.
稍微停一下,就像我們上次所說的那樣,它是這樣,編排的,樂曲的開始樂段給了我們很好的範例,來區分兩種鏇律類型,區分動機和主題
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The committee's general recommendations involved requiring professors at all universities to make a distinction in their classrooms between facts and their political opinions.
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