Discuss
[dɪ'skʌs]
解释:
(v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.
(v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.
(v. t.) To shake; to put away; to finish.
(v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.
(v. t.) To deal with, in eating or drinking.
(v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
手打:朱迪
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Debate, sift, canvass, ventilate, agitate, argue, reason about.
整理:莱昂内尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Debate, argue, sift_canvass, examine
ANT:Mystify, confound, obscure
整理:弗娜
解释:
v.t. to examine in detail or by disputation: to debate: to sift: (coll.) to consume as a bottle of wine.—adj. Discuss′able.—n. Discus′sion debate: (surg.) dispersion of a tumour.—adjs. Discuss′ive Discū′tient able or tending to discuss or disperse tumours.—n. Discū′tient a medicine with this property.
校对:利昂
例句:
- We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I never discuss a Saint after dark, I said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- To make short of a long story, I am afraid I have wanted an object; but I have an object now--or it has me--and it is too late to discuss it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It is impossible to discuss that time without discussing our own time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- They discussed the matter thoroughly but arrived at no solution. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The subject of reading aloud was farther discussed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- We have already discussed the relationship of social development to the restriction of the idea of property (chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Mr and Mrs Boffin, sitting side by side, with Fashion withdrawn to an immeasurable distance, fell to discussing how they could best find their orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Why, that is the very point, Sophronia, that Georgiana and I were discussing as to herself! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- They found Margaret with a letter open before her, eagerly discussing its contents with her father. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science to-day discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- As for him, he methodically discusses his matter of business as if she were any insensible instrument used in business. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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