i‧den‧ti‧fy S2 W1 AC / aɪdentəfaɪ, aɪdentɪfaɪ / 动词 ( past tense and past participle identified , present participle identifying , third person singular identifies ) [及物动词]

1 to recognize and correctly name someone or something :

He was too far away to be able to identify faces.

The police took fingerprints and identified the body .

identify somebody/something as somebody/something

Eyewitnesses identified the gunman as an army sergeant.

The aircraft were identified as American.

2 to recognize something or discover exactly what it is, what its nature or origin is etc :

Scientists have identified the gene that causes abnormal growth.

They identified a number of problem areas.

3 if a particular thing identifies someone or something, it makes them easy to recognize

identify somebody as somebody

His accent identified him as a Frenchman.

identify with 短语动词

1 identify with somebody/something to feel sympathy with someone or be able to share their feelings :

Humans can easily identify with the emotional expressions of chimpanzees.

He identified with our distress.

2 identify somebody with something to think that someone is very closely related to or involved with something such as a political group :

She has always been identified with the radical left.

3 identify something with somebody/something to think that something is the same as, or closely related to, something else :

the attempt to identify crime with poverty and social problems

THESAURUS

recognize to know who someone is or what something is, especially because you have seen or heard them before : I hadn’t seen her for ten years, but I recognized her immediately. | Do you recognize this song?

identify to recognize someone or something and say who or what they are : As they came closer, I was able to identify two of the group. | It’s delicious but I can’t quite identify the taste.

distinguish to recognize and understand the difference between two or more things or people : By this age, kids can usually distinguish between right and wrong. | It’s often difficult to distinguish identical twins from each other.

make something/somebody out to be able to see or hear something or someone – used when it is very difficult to do this : In the distance, I could just make out the outline of an island. | He whispered something but I couldn’t make out what it was.

discern / dɪsɜn $ -ɜrn / formal to notice or understand something by looking carefully or thinking about it carefully : I thought I discerned a faint gleam of hope in his eyes. | A number of differences can be discerned in the data for the three countries.