to make a distinction

基本解释

That contradiction thus allows us to make a distinction. It is not an absurd work that is involved here, but a work that propounds the absurd problem.
这种矛盾让我们对此有所区别：这部小说不是一部荒谬的作品，而是一部提出荒谬问题的著作。
Molecular biologists have observed that people's cells often age at different rates, leading them to make a distinction between chronological and biological age.
分子生物学家观察到，人体各种细胞衰老的速度是有差别的，因此细胞的时间年龄和生物学年龄并不同步。
Note carefully that the phrase is "principal" programming language, meaning the developer himself was forced to make a distinction as to what is their "principal" language.
请注意，这里使用了 “首选” 编程语言一词，这意味着开发人员自己需要区别什么是他们的 “首选” 语言。

Congress had to make a distinction between these and corporations and it's kind of a subtle distinction because there are lots of corporations that own real estate.
国会必须把它和公司区分开来,这种差别很微妙,因为很多公司也持有房地产
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And so, they had to make a distinction.
他们必须要作出区分
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Let's pause it there, and as we said last time, it operates in that fashion, and that beginning gives us a good opportunity to make a distinction between two types of melody, between this idea of a motive and a theme.
稍微停一下,就像我们上次所说的那样,它是这样,编排的,乐曲的开始乐段给了我们很好的范例,来区分两种旋律类型,区分动机和主题
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The committee's general recommendations involved requiring professors at all universities to make a distinction in their classrooms between facts and their political opinions.
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