• adj. 明顯的；獨(dú)特的；清楚的；有區(qū)別的

詞源同distinguish, 區(qū)分，分開。

distinct

distinct: [14] Etymologically, distinct is the past participle of distinguish. It comes from distinctus, past participle of Latin distinguere ‘separate, discriminate’ (source, via the present stem of Old French distinguer, of English distinguish [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘a(chǎn)part’ and the verbal element -stinguere ‘prick, stick’, and hence meant originally ‘separate by pricking’ (-stinguere, related to English stick and instigate, is not found as an independent verb in Latin in the sense ‘prick’, but stinguere does occur in the remote metaphorical meaning ‘quench’ – a development mirrored in German ersticken ‘stifle, suffocate’ – which lies behind English extinct and extinguish). Distingué is an early 19th-century adoption of the past participle of French distinguer.
=> distinguish, extinct, instigate, stick

distinct (adj.)

late 14c., originally past participle of distincten (c. 1300) "to distinguish," from Old French distincter, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (see distinguish). Related: Distinctness.

1. The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.

燈塔的光束在漸濃的暮色中清晰可見。

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2. Editorially, they never really became a unique distinct product.

就立場(chǎng)和觀點(diǎn)來(lái)說(shuō)，它們從未真正做到樹立起自己獨(dú)具一格的視角。

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3. Modern linguistics emerged as a distinct field in the nineteenth century.

現(xiàn)代語(yǔ)言學(xué)在19世紀(jì)作為一個(gè)獨(dú)立的領(lǐng)域出現(xiàn)。

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4. Engineering and technology are disciplines distinct from one another and from science.

工程學(xué)和工藝學(xué)互不相同，也有別于自然學(xué)科。

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5. Another Cup marathon between the two sides is now a distinct possibility.

雙方很可能再進(jìn)行一場(chǎng)馬拉松式的優(yōu)勝杯比賽。

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