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发音：[ˌdɪfəˈrenʃiˌeɪt]
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例句：
- When people differentiate things, they just want to perceive the difference, such as colors, shapes, or other characteristics, among objects.
- For most of their classmates, the only thing that differentiates the twins in their class is the color of their eyes.
- Students were required to use their real first names, followed by a number, to differentiate them from other students with the same name.
- As tourists begin returning to Kyoto, the hotel hopes to differentiate itself by providing guests with exclusive experiences it has negotiated with some of Kyoto’s beautiful but less trafficked destinations.
- Nowadays, most smart cell phones look like a big screen with no buttons on the front, so for the majority of customers, it’s hard to differentiate among these devices to make a final purchase decision.
- The brain changes were so pronounced that an algorithm could easily differentiate the brain of a woman who had gone through a pregnancy from that of a woman with no children.
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解释：
- Differentiate这个单词为动词，其表示“to identify the differences among things, or to distinguish among them”这一含义，即“区分/区别/表识别…之间的差别”，与distinguish/separate/discriminate这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Social media posts claimed the CDC was revoking its emergency use authorization request for its covid test because it couldn’t differentiate between the covid virus and flu viruses.（社交媒体帖子声称，疾病预防控制中心正在撤销其covid测试的紧急使用授权请求，因为它无法区分covid病毒和流感病毒。）
—Medical - The great challenge is to separate signal from noise, to successfully differentiate when markets are sending useful information about the economic future and when they just represent erratic, random movement.（最大的挑战是将信号与噪音区分开，成功地区分市场何时发送有关经济未来的有用信息，以及何时它们只是代表不稳定的随机运动。）
—Business - In 2012, just before the London Olympics, the Amateur International Boxing Association advocated that female boxers wear skirts, not shorts, to differentiate themselves from men.（2012年，就在伦敦奥运会之前，业余国际拳击协会提议女拳击手穿裙子，而不是短裤，以区别于男性。）
—Sports - In 2015, Google restructured itself under the new parent company, dividing itself into separate companies to better differentiate its internet search business from the moonshot bets it was making in other areas.（2015年，谷歌在新母公司下进行了重组，将自己划分为独立的公司，以更好地将其互联网搜索业务与在其他领域的大胆创新计划赌注区分开来。）
—Technology
