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argument

英 ['ɑːgjʊm(ə)nt] 美['ɑrɡjumənt]
  • n. 论证;论据;争吵;内容提要

英英释意


1. a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true;
"it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
2. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement;
"they were involved in a violent argument"
3. a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal;
"the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"
4. a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie;
"the editor added the argument to the poem"
5. a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable; if f(x)=y, x is the independent variable