Controversy
['kɒntrəvɜːsɪ;kən'trɒvəsɪ] or ['kɑntrə'vɝsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement; 'they were involved in a violent argument'.
克林顿編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
卡梅拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
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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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dispute, disagreement, quarrel, strife, altercation, contention, disputation,wrangle, bickering, question
ANT:Agreement, unanimity, coincidence
沙琳編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The same point is frequently at this day a matter of controversy in the wine countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The tariff controversy is almost as old as the nation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Times of violent religious controversy have generally been times of equally violent political faction. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This new controversy touched everybody who read a book or heard intelligent conversation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- That too is why debating is such a wretched amusement and most partisanship, most controversy, so degrading. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The second relation I shall observe as essential to causes and effects, is not so universally acknowledged, but is liable to some controversy. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There was the everlasting Mr. Begbie, too eager for the controversy to wait any longer at the gate. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- During the seventies and eighties a stormy controversy raged throughout the civilized world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For my part, I know not from what principles such a controversy can be certainly determined. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- To Gibbon he must go for a derisive statement of these controversies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He never left any chance for newspaper controversies about who won the battle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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