contention

/kәn'teinʃәn/

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📖 中文释义

  1. n. 争论, 争辩, 所持的论点
  2. [计] 争用

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

复数 contentions

💬 双语例句

  1. Leaders would have to show courage, offering highly unpopular compromises on some key issues of contention. Unfortunately, that may be the one area where Trump has no advantage over his predecessors.

  2. The key point of contention, however, is the pan-European Financial Transactions Tax, which the European Commission proposed with support from both Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. From a UK perspective, the FTT is highly unattractive.

  3. There is no Russia-Japan peace treaty, and the two countries have competing claims over the Kuril Islands (known as the Northern Territories to the Japanese). The border between China and India is also a matter of contention.

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🔗 常用搭配

bone of contentioncontention unfortunatelycontention the languageissues of contentionmatter of contentionpoint of contention
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. a point asserted as part of an argument