Discuss
[dɪ'skʌs]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Debate, sift, canvass, ventilate, agitate, argue, reason about.
整理:莱昂内尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Debate, argue, sift_canvass, examine
ANT:Mystify, confound, obscure
整理:弗娜
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:利昂
例句/造句/用法:
- We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I never discuss a Saint after dark, I said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It is impossible to discuss that time without discussing our own time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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.
- 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. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- They discussed the matter thoroughly but arrived at no solution. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The subject of reading aloud was farther discussed. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- We have already discussed the relationship of social development to the restriction of the idea of property (chap. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Why, that is the very point, Sophronia, that Georgiana and I were discussing as to herself! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- They found Margaret with a letter open before her, eagerly discussing its contents with her father. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As for him, he methodically discusses his matter of business as if she were any insensible instrument used in business. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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