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词汇 debatable
释义 debatable
adjective
uk /dɪˈbeɪ.tə.bəl/ us /dɪˈbeɪ.t̬ə.bəl/
not clear or certain because different people may have different opinions: 有争议的,不确定的;成问题的
[ + question word ]It's debatable whether a university degree helps at all.大学学位是否有用是一个有争议的话题。
The value of some of the experiments is debatable.有些实验的价值还有待确定。
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debatably

debatable | American Dictionary


debatable
adjective
us/dɪˈbeɪ·t̬ə·bəl/
not clear, not certain, or not fixed; possibly not true:
It’s debatable whether he could get a fair trial here.

Examples of debatable


debatable
The issue had to be transformed into a "visible" subject, and private views into debatable opinions.
A few of the chapters seem to strike out in such individual directions that their inclusion would be debatable.
This prediction is still debatable since there is no agreement about whether there is a cut-off point at which language-learning performance decreases dramatically.
One might argue in their favour that one usually knows conditions upstream of a shock, but even this is debatable.
It is, of course, debatable whether people assessed as needing a care-home admission should be placed on a waiting list for a place.
Consideration of financial issues in relation to the treatment of critically ill infants is debatable.
To this end, the more debatable issue is how costly disinflations really are.
The attitude of voters towards various other economic variables is more debatable, and so these will be ignored for now.
Most of the explanation of the symbols is fairly uncontroversial, but occasionally comments are made that seem to be more debatable.
The nature and quality of the evidence cited here for asymmetries in nonhuman species is debatable.
Some details of his explanation of the special cases may be debatable, although the general line of approach seems sound to us.
Nonetheless, the success of such experience is debatable, and the continued difficulties younger generations encounter while out on the land indicates limited adaptive capacity.
Whether this is absolutely necessary (and whether the reader has any way of hearing or reproducing all these sounds) is debatable.
On the one hand, the accurate measurement of civic culture is highly debatable.
The advantages of being mobile in labour remain debatable.
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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