| 词汇 | debating |
| 释义 | debating present participle ofdebate 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。 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. Debate & discussion agent provocateur agora argue argue against something argue for something bargain bargainer controversial controversialist float hash no ifs or butsidiom no-platform no-platforming on the doorstep out-debate undiscussed war of words wash (something) up well argued You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Thinking and contemplating Related worddebater Examples of debatingdebating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. We might still disagree about what is feasible, or how much feasibility matters, but at least we can figure out what we are really debating. Such departments are currently debating the nature of their subject. In contrast, he would challenge or counter the person's jibes, with the same intensity as he would if he were debating an issue. The hierarchical nature of the corps, however, produced the same problem that early efforts at debating had done. People who had never imagined discussing it seriously at home were now bombarded in the media by constant public debating of the issue. Instead of debating issues, in-yer-face theatre imposes its point of view on the audience. On the debating courtyard, monks deliberately place this ideology in jeopardy. They are forming their own opinions, avidly discussing and debating them, and trying to bring others around to their way of thinking. One of the working groups emphasised the importance of sharing experiences, and debating analyses of local conflict. Debating the privacy issues in one domain rather than another portends very different policies. It aids the processes of learning, debating, and revising one's priorities. Again, this is more than an academic debating point. However, although this claim is well worth debating, it is not the crux of the argument, so let's move on. Establishing guilt by association was in other words a frequent and sometimes very successful strategy in the strongly polarised debating climate of the 1970s. However, in subsequent years, both governments became increasingly involved in debating future regulatory options of the railways, in particular with regard to organisational structure. 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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