Controversy
['kɒntrəvɜːsɪ;kən'trɒvəsɪ] or ['kɑntrə'vɝsi]
解释:
(noun.) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; 'they were involved in a violent argument'.
克林顿编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
(n.) Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.
(n.) A suit in law or equity; a question of right.
卡梅拉校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Discussion, dispute, disputation, debate, polemics, altercation, logomachy, war of words, strife of words.[2]. Lawsuit, suit at law, process in law.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation,wrangle, bickering, question
ANT:Agreement, unanimity, coincidence
沙琳编辑
娱乐性解释：
n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.
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例句:
- The same point is frequently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The tariff controversy is almost as old as the nation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This new controversy touched everybody who read a book or heard intelligent conversation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- That too is why debating is such a wretched amusement and most partisanship, most controversy, so degrading. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- There has been much discussion and controversy over this Eozoon, but to-day it is agreed that Eozoon is nothing more than a crystalline marking. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The second relation I shall observe as essential to causes and effects, is not so universally acknowledged, but is liable to some controversy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Already in the thirteenth century we have seen Pope Gregory IX and the Emperor Frederick II engaging in a violent public controversy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The scientific world at that time was engaged in a controversy regarding the external and internal resistance of a circuit in which a generator was situated. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- There was the everlasting Mr. Begbie, too eager for the controversy to wait any longer at the gate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For my part, I know not from what principles such a controversy can be certainly determined. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- He never left any chance for newspaper controversies about who won the battle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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