The professor wanted to see if the animals could tell the difference between the calming music and the music written to make them uneasy.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The answer to the rhetorical question is that we can't tell the difference between the dancer and the dance.

这个问句的答案是,我们无法辨别舞者和舞蹈。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Could you tell us about the difference between London and California?

能跟我们说说加州和伦敦的差别吗？

英国与美国的差异 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"The nicest thing is you can still see their colors. There's enough contrast so that you can tell the difference between a red star and a blue star and show people that stars have colors.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Not only did we figure out a way to describe how we quantify it, but we've also quantified how we tell the difference between covalent and ionic, and percent ionic character.

我们不仅想出了一个办法来描述,我们如何定量它，而且我们也定义,我们如何分辨共价性和离子性，以及离子百分数。

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"In recent years,these companies have become much more sophisticated, up to the point where it's impossible to tell the difference between the counterfeit cigarettes and the actual cigarettes."

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

I think we're fully entitled to ask why: why Milton waits for the last eight lines of his poem to tell us that there's a difference, that there's a difference between the poet and the speaker.

我们完全有权利问为什么：,为什么弥尔顿要等到诗的最后8行,才告诉我们这里的区别，这里诗人和演说人之间的区别。

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They tell us for instance that there is a difference between recognizing something in the sense that you could name it, and knowing what it is.

例如它们会让我们明白,在识别某物叫什么,与知道某物是什么之间,还是有所不同的

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