I couldn't have distinguished a transmission from an alternator.

我根本分辨不出哪一个是变速器，哪一个是交流发电机。

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Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be seen.

沙威低下头，望了望。一片漆黑，什么也辨别不清。听得见浪花声，但见不到河流。

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Editor of the Yale Law Review , a distinguished assistant district attorney.

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A creature is required who is distinguished in certain ways from other animals.

是一种对之有所求的创造物,他在某些方面与其他动物不同。

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Joshua Bolten had a long and distinguished career in the Bush White House.

约书亚在小布什执政期间,职业生涯成绩卓著。

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But, since Mr Blair remains unpersuaded of the case for reform, his willingness to contemplate so distinguished a chairman as Lord Jenkins shows his commitment to fair dealing with the Lib Dems.

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Talk about offhand chic: On my last trip there, I saw a distinguished guy with a quilted jacket over his suit tooling around town on a Vespa scooter.

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Graffman, who is seventy-nine, studied with Rudolph Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz and had a distinguished career as a soloist until an injury on his right hand, when he was fifty, slowed him down.

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