If you differentiate between things or if you differentiate one thing from another, you recognize or show the difference between them.
例句
A child may not differentiate between his imagination and the real world...儿童可能无法将自己的幻想与真实世界区分开来。At this age your baby cannot differentiate one person from another.这个年龄的婴儿还不能认人。
VERB
使有差别;使不同
A quality or feature that differentiates one thing from another makes the two things different.
例句
...distinctive policies that differentiate them from the other parties.使他们有别于其他政党的特殊政策
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. made different (especially in the course of development) or shown to be different;
"the differentiated markings of butterflies""the regionally differentiated results"
2. exhibiting biological specialization; adapted during development to a specific function or environment