tell one from another

基本解释

Much as the sheep look identicwouls- the old man can tell one from another.
固然緜羊看起來很相像，但那位老人仍能逐一區別。
Three smiling faces appeared before my eyes, mingled together in harmony of love and I couldn't tell one from another.
眼前浮現的三個笑容，一時融化在愛的調和裡看不分明了。
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They hope as the little girls get older they will develop individual looks and personalities to help them tell one from another.
他們希望這些小女孩們長大一點後能夠擁有自己獨特的外表和性格，好讓他們能分辨出來。

One of the things that's interesting about that is you can see pottery styles that you can hardly tell whether they came from one end of the Mediterranean or another, if they're of the Mycenaean variety, because it was a single culture.
一個有趣的現象是,你可以鋻別出陶器的風格,但你卻很難區分,它來自於地中海的哪一邊,因爲它們都屬於同一文明
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The population has recovered, but the genetic diversity has not recovered so that all the Tasmanian devils that exist are so similar to one another genetically that their immune systems don't seem to be able to tell one from another.
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Bernard says he can't tell one mosquito from another.
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It can take a trained ear to tell one modern Congolese band from another, so formulaic has the music become.
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