As our insensitivity has increased, so naturally has our ability to discern that insensitivity declined.

因为我们的迟钝在增长——自然地我们觉察得出这种迟钝的能力在衰落。

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It was difficult to discern that despite all the abstruse vocabulary the professor was really a charlatan.

很难辨明那个教授虽然有很多深奥的词汇，实际上却是一个冒充内行的人现代英汉词典。

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For example, from 40,000 individual pieces of data recorded this spring we were able to discern that spring 2011 was the earliest arriving this century.

比如，从今年春季记录的四万份数据中，我们能够了解到，2011年春天是这个世纪最早的春天。

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Similarly, divination. Divination is an attempt to discern the future that, once again, heads right to the source of power.

类似的还有占卜术，占卜是一种试图看清未来的法术,它的终极目标，也是神力的源头。

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So I was compelled to say, in praising true philosophy, that it was from it alone that was able to discern any justice.

所以为了，颂扬真正的哲学，我不得不说只有它,才能辨别出所有正义。

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This of course makes it easier to discern that Lennon was in fact a master melodist and McCartney a gifted lyricist.

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