词汇 | oppugn |
释义 | oppugn verb[ T ] formaluk /əˈpjuːn/ us /əˈpjuːn/ to say that you do not think something is true, or that it might not be true: 对…提出质疑;对…提出怀疑 Many people oppugned his opinion.许多人对他的观点提出了质疑。 Truth is never better cleared than when it is oppugned and contradicted.真相在受到质疑和反驳时,会变得更加清晰。 No one would have reasonably oppugned their opinion. She had the audacity to oppugn the conclusions of her department head. Though oppugned, this doctrine is as stable and impregnable as that of the earth's motion. Suspecting & questioning ask questions of someone/somethingidiom challenge challengingly cynic cynical about someone/something cynically cynicism doubt interrogate query reserve sceptical scepticism skeptic skeptical skeptically suspect suspected suspiciously unchallengeable Examples of oppugnoppugn Either, therefore, he who oppugns incorporeal quality seems also to oppugn unqualified matter; or separating the one from the other, he mutually parts them both. From Project Gutenberg A skeptic can only doubt, never oppugn the gospel. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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