Debate
[dɪ'beɪt] or [dɪ'bet]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote).
(verb.) argue with one another; 'We debated the question of abortion'; 'John debated Mary'.
(verb.) discuss the pros and cons of an issue.
哈罗德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
(v. t.) To contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.
(v. i.) To engage in strife or combat; to fight.
(v. i.) To contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.
(v. t.) A fight or fighting; contest; strife.
(v. t.) Contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in Parliament or in Congress.
(v. t.) Subject of discussion.
克利福德整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Disputation, controversy.[2]. Altercation, contest, contention, dispute, logomachy, strife of words, war of words.
v. a. Discuss, argue, dispute, contest, canvass.
v. n. [1]. Argue, dispute, deliberate, hold an argument.[2]. (Rare.) Fight, contend, struggle.
德斯蒙德錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Contend, dispute, argue, moot, controvert, contest, wrangle, discuss,deliberate, question, ventilate
ANT:Yield, concede, surrender, admit, allow
克里斯整理
解釋/意思:
n. a contention in words or argument: (obs.) strife.—v.t. to contend for in argument: (arch.) to fight for.—v.i. to deliberate: to join in debate.—adjs. Debat′able liable to be disputed; Debate′ful (Spens.) quarrelsome.—ns. Debate′ment (Spens. Shak.) controversy; Debat′er.—adv. Debat′ingly.—Debatable land a tract of border land between Esk and Sark claimed both by England and Scotland.
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例句/造句/用法:
- We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The debate had ended at three in the morning. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A debate is not what a debate used to be; the House is not what the House used to be; even a Cabinet is not what it formerly was. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Now,' was his debate with himself 'shall I foller you on, or shall I let you loose for this once, and go a fishing? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Why don't you read _El Debate_ then? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The debates were exciting, and were upon the subject of the situation the South was in at that time, particularly the State of Georgia. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was telling him, the other day, how much we should be disappointed if he did not take a very active part in the debates. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The violence of our party debates about the new constitution seems much abated, indeed almost extinct, and we are getting fast into good order. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It is true that the debates of both Houses of Parliament the whole session through, uniformly tended to the protracted deliberation, How not to do it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- There was a most irritating end to every one of these debates. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the debates to which this memorial gave rise, several attempts were made to justify the trade. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Here we debated the wisdom of sinking the craft before leaving her, but finally decided that it would add nothing to our chances for escape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And, when the matter was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The question to be debated was, whether the _Yahoos_ should be exterminated from the face of the earth? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Nor, how I debated whether I should go away without ringing; nor, how I should undoubtedly have gone, if my time had been my own, to come back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We should have considered more carefully our future plans, and debated concerning the spot where we should in future dwell. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It is a trivial question that has been preposterously debated. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mr. Lorry reddened as if he were conscious of having debated the point in his mind, and Mr. Carton made his way to the outside of the bar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- What is worth debating is the method by which change is to come about. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- An attempt was made to organize a debating club, but it was a failure. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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.
- Lydgate did not answer, and she saw that he was debating with himself. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I was debating whether I should pretend that I was not well, and fly--I don't know where--upon my gallant grey, when Dora and Miss Mills met me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Nobody need waste his time debating whether or not there are to be great changes. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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