distinguer

Et puis ces champignons dans lesquels je distinguais nettement la morsure des blaireaux.	And then these mushrooms in which I clearly distinguished the bite from the badgers.
Sauf que parfois, je distinguais des mots.	Just once in a while, there would be words.
Je ne distinguais plus rien.	I couldn't distinguish one red dot from the other.
Je ne distinguais aucun visage, mais je ne savais pas où j'étais.	I couldn't make out any faces but was clear of where I was.
On voit que je distinguais alors l'étape démocratique et l'étape socialiste de la révolution, bien avant le jour où Radek, imitant Staline et Thaelman, voulut m'enseigner cette distinction.	It therefore follows that I did differentiate somewhat between the democratic and socialist stages of the revolution, long before Radek, tailing after Stalin and Thaelmann, began lecturing me on this subject.
Ensuite j’ai cru que j’étais sorti de mon lit parce que je voyais mes parents se quereller dans le couloir, mais je ne distinguais pas ce qu’ils disaient.	Then I thought I was out of bed because I saw my parents in the hallway yelling at each other but I could not make out what they were saying.
Je ne distinguais plus la réalité de la fiction.	It got so I couldn't tell the real from the unreal.