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词汇 debate
释义 debate
noun
uk /dɪˈbeɪt/ us /dɪˈbeɪt/
B2[ C or U ]
(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part: 谈论,讨论;争论,辩论
Education is the current focus of public debate.教育是目前大众谈论的焦点。
for debateHow we proceed from here is a matter for debate.我们下一步怎样做还需要讨论。
debate aboutOver the years we have had several debates about future policy.
[ C ]
a competition in which teams of people, often students, discuss a subject and the team that is judged to make the best arguments wins:
The team won their Round 3 debate against Mitcham Girls High School.
The students were taking part in a debate contest.
The debate completely changed course after Liz made her speech.莉兹发言后辩论方向完全改变了。
The debate about food safety has engaged the whole nation.关于食品安全的争论引起了全国关注。
She issued a challenge to her rival candidates to take part in a public debate.她向与她竞争的候选人发出挑战,邀请他们参加一次公开辩论。
The prison riots have sharpened the debate about how prisons should be run.监狱暴动加剧了有关监狱该如何管理的争论。
This proposal will almost certainly spark another countrywide debate about how to organize the school system.
His team won the national high school debate championship.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion
agent provocateur
agora
argue
argue against something
argue for something
bargainer
beard
controversial
kick around
no ifs or butsidiom
no-platform
no-platforming
on the doorstep
proposer
uncontroversially
undialectical
undiscussed
war of words
wash (something) up
weigh

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Competitions, & parts of competitions
debate
verb
uk /dɪˈbeɪt/ us /dɪˈbeɪt/
C2[ I or T ]
to discuss a subject in a formal way: 讨论;争论
In Parliament today, MPs debated the Finance Bill.今天在议会上议员们讨论了财政法案。
They had been debating for several hours without reaching a conclusion.他们已经争论了好几个小时,仍然没有得出一个结论。
[ + question word ]The authorities debated whether to build a new car park.政府有关部门就是否要修建一座新停车场进行了讨论。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to talk about something
talk aboutI don't like talking about my feelings.
speak aboutHe is often asked to speak about the decline of global energy supplies.
discussWe need to discuss arrangements for next week.
talk overI need to talk it over with my wife before I accept the job.
talk throughWe're used to talking things through, so we don't have many arguments.
debateThe bill will be debated in parliament next week.
[ T ]
to try to make a decision about something: 斟酌;考虑
[ + question word ]We debated whether to take the earlier train.我们考虑到底要不要乘早一点的那次列车。
I'm still debating what colour to paint the walls.我还在考虑要把墙刷成什么颜色。
The matter was hotly debated in all the towns of the realm.此事在该王国内的各个城镇都进行了激烈的讨论。
There was no seconder for the motion so it could not be debated.该议案没有附议者,因此无法进行辩论。
The ethics of journalism are much debated.新闻业的职业道德问题是个广受讨论的问题。
They were debating the proposition that 'All people are created equal'.他们正就“人人生而平等”这一命题展开辩论。
I'm still debating whether to take the job or not.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion
agent provocateur
agora
argue
argue against something
argue for something
bargainer
beard
controversial
kick around
no ifs or butsidiom
no-platform
no-platforming
on the doorstep
proposer
uncontroversially
undialectical
undiscussed
war of words
wash (something) up
weigh

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Thinking and contemplating

Related word


debater

debate | American Dictionary


debate
noun[ C/U ]
us/dɪˈbeɪt/
English
a discussion, esp. one in which several people with different opinions about something discuss them seriously, or the process of discussing something:
[ U ]Education is always a topic of interest and public debate.

debate


verb[ I/T ]us/dɪˈbeɪt/
[ I ]Congress debated for several hours without reaching a vote.

Examples of debate


debate
Politics became inseparably entwined with cultural or intellectual debates from the onset.
Theoretically there is the challenge of contributing to current debates on how music is perceived, understood and used as an effective means of communication.
Issues like identity and relations to the foreign may not be restricted to debates on national(ist) archaeologies.
Rather, one needs to accept that immersion pedagogy is located in a range of sociopolitical, cultural, economic, and educational debates.
The precise character and form of historical definitions of 'peace' have always been debated.
The ethical resources of this society are only now being explored as the concept comes to be debated.
Revulsion to dismemberment (or to creating a member where there was none, as it were) further manifests itself in debates over the acceptability of transsexuals.
Debates about futility are debates about specific interpretations of the basic concept.
Developments in cybernetics should be openly debated with accountability to the public, especially for investment of public funds.
The debates demonstrated the importance of a more liberal regime after 1901.
Whereas in the earlier period debates about taxation had tended to focus upon political and constitutional issues, they now centred around economic ones.
At minister ial level, questions of competence and status continued to be debated into the 1970s.
What follows is an investigation of these records in the light of the debates outlined above.
In each area there is a synthesis of selected research findings, with commentary on major debates.
In the early days of bioethics, there were three methodological debates.
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Collocations withdebate


debate

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acrimonious debate
That was the subject of acrimoniousdebate in the summer of 1929.
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bitter debate
Central to centuries of contestation was the notion of usage and the bitterdebate over whether this involved legal right or tolerated privilege.
considerable debate
There is considerabledebate about the range of values of e for continental lithosphere.
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