argument
美 [ˈɑrɡjəmənt] 
英 [ˈɑː(r)ɡjʊmənt]
词形变化
复数：arguments 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c][u] 争论；争吵；争辩；辩论a conversation or discussion in which two or more people disagree, often angrily |
| to win/lose an argument 辩论赢了╱输了 |
| After some heated argument a decision was finally taken. 激烈辩论以后终于作出了决定。 |
| We had an argument with the waiter about the bill. 我们和服务员就账单发生了争吵。 |
| She got into an argument with the teacher. 她和老师争论了起来。 |
2. | [c] 论据；理由；论点a reason or set of reasons that sb uses to show that sth is true or correct |
| Her main argument was a moral one. 她的主要论据是道德上的。 |
| There are strong arguments for and against euthanasia. 对安乐死支持和反对的人都有强而有力的论据。 |
| His argument was that public spending must be reduced. 他的论点是公共开支必须缩减。 |
3. | [u] ~ (about sth) 辩论the act of disagreeing in a conversation or discussion using a reason or set of reasons |
| Let's assume for the sake of argument(= in order to discuss the problem) that we can't start till March. 为方便讨论起见，先假定我们要到三月份才能开始。 |
英汉解释
n. | 8. (书籍等的)梗概,摘要,大纲,(剧本等的)情节 |
英英解释
例句
As captain of the Anna Sims, moored in Darien, Georgia, he got into a violent argument with a member of his crew.
奥吉弗当时是安娜瑟姆斯号的船长，停泊在佐治亚州达里恩港时，他和一名船员发生了激烈冲突。
My wife and I had gotten in an argument and my 19-year-old daughter announced that she was leaving the house to move in with her boyfriend.
我的妻子和我吵了一架，我19岁的女儿宣布她要离开家和她的男朋友住在一起。
In most societies, FGM is considered a cultural tradition, which is often used as an argument for its continuation.
在大多数社会里，女性生殖器切割被看作一种文化传统。这经常作为支持这种行为继续下去的理由。
The decreasing character of a function with negative derivative can be proved by an analogous argument.
负导数函数具有递减性的证明完全类似。
She realized that she might have made the same mistake as Joan Durbeyfield. She completely accepted Angel's argument.
她意识到，她也许会和琼·德北犯同样的错误。她完全接受了安吉尔的论点。
They forced me to smarten up my act, to try to close the gaps in my thinking, to consider the argument more carefully before setting it out.
它们使我整理自己的言行，努力弥补自己思想上的不足，并在发表意见之前深思熟虑。
Something of a know-it-all, he comes across as slightly hostile, even if only through verbal argument, or jokes targeted at others.
他们可以说是无所不知，就算只是跟别人言语争执或者冲别人开玩笑，也都会稍微带些敌意。
It was no longer enough to be plausible in argument; one had to be convincing in action.
仅仅是嘴巴上能说会道的就不够了；还必须要在行动上令人信服。
The reformers seem to have won the argument, though it may take a while longer for that to become clear.
改革者似乎赢得了这场辩论，但是这一点要变得清晰明了可能还需要一段时间。
He told me that there had been an argument between them.
（过去完成时）他告诉我他们之间有过一场辩论。
Hawking's argument was that perhaps mankind should stay quiet and refrain from trying to send signals into outer space.
霍金的说法是，人类大概应该保持沉默，避免往外太空发射信号。
Libra, able to see both sides of the argument, can compromise easily, while Leo may be more unhappy about yielding.
秤喜欢从不同角度看问题，可以轻松让步，而狮子则不然。
How much digging before the argument is settled?
到底要发掘出多少证据才能解决这场争论呢？
In the theory circle of criminal law of current China, the argument for abolishment of death penalty seems to be overwhelming.
在当今中国刑法理论界，废除死刑的主张似呈压倒之势。
A discussion concerning "will you[would] get married with a boyfriend that has no building to have no car" causes a hot argument.
一个关于“你会和一个没房没车的男朋友结婚吗”的讨论引发热议。
Such, at least, was the argument advanced by researchers from China's top think tank in an essay published Monday.
这至少是中国顶尖智库研究员在周一发表的一篇文章中提出的观点。
All the information should be relevant to the point and promote your argument, much like how you choose information for your speeches.
全部这些资料，必须是切题，并能推销你的论点，就像是你如何选择演讲的资讯一样。
However, there seems to me to be an intriguing ambiguity in this argument.
然而，这个观点在我看来似乎存在着令人迷惑的歧义。
My dad and I had a strongly worded argument when I told him I wanted to drop out of school.
我告诉爸爸我想辍学时我们大吵了一架。
You can use the REWRITE function without the ANSI argument to help understand how the optimizer generated the access plan for a given query.
使用REWRITE函数时可以不带ANSI参数，这样可以帮助理解优化程序是如何生成给定查询的访问计划的。
She abstracted the main points from the argument.
她把论证概括成要点。
That will add strength to your argument.
那会增加你的辩论的力量的。
The argument culminated in a fist fight.
辩论以斗殴而告终。
You ought to ram your argument home in the conference.
你应当在会上充分说明你的论点。
The speaker dwelt on a particular point in the argument.
演讲者在辩论中特别详述某一点。
The argument misfits the case.
这论据不适用于这件事。
He had me in that argument.
在那次辨论中，他战胜了我。
After much argument, the judges finally compromised onthe 18-year old pianist.
经过激烈争论，评委终于同意那个18岁的钢琴手获奖。
He lost his line of argument.
他的思路断了。
He will never be vanquished by argument.
无论你怎样辩论也说服不了他。
All this-so easy now to see-was then the subject of prolonged and earnest argument, extending over days and weeks.
所有这些现已显而易见，但是当时却是曾经过长时间激烈辩论的题目。
It was no longer enough to be plausible in argument; one had to be convincing in action.
仅仅是嘴巴上能说会道的就不够了；还必须要在行动上令人信服。
This argument rests on the idea that society, like an organism, possesses a sort of memory of what we usually call its history.
这种议论依赖于这样的观念：社会犹如有机体，它具有一种我们通常称之为历史的记忆力。
Not withstanding the wretched appearance and violent demeanor of this woman, the magistrate felt the justice of her argument.
不论这个婆娘的外相是多么潦倒，态度又是多么粗暴，市政官觉得她的辩护还是有道理的。
Your argument seems to have too many ifs.
你的论据似乎假设太多。
Steger, seeing there was no chance to soften the judge's mind by any subtlety of argument, returned to Cowperwood.
斯蒂格发现已没有机会利用微妙的诡辩来软化推事的主张了，就回到考帕伍德身边去。
I mean that there should be no argument about this.
我的意思是不许对此事有任何争论。
The British advanced this argument at every opportunity.
英国人一有机会就提出这个论点。
After all the argument, the writer finished up with a contract.
经过这么多争论后，作家终于签订了合同。
This argument and the awful weight of the hour quelled the would-be heresy-hunters.
这一论点，以及当时的严重局势，制止了那些所谓的迫害异端的人们。
He certainly shook my military advisers with all the detailed argument he produced.
他的确用详尽的议论使我的军事顾问们的观点发生动摇。
It was no time for argument.
现在不是争论的时候。
This was not an argument likely to move Kennedy.
这种说法是不大可能打动肯尼迪的。
In this argument his speech fought with his own shadow.
在这场辩论中他的发言简直是无的放矢。
He had begun this argument purposely.
他故意挑起了这场辩论。
The argument just mentioned deserves elaboration.
上述论点值得推敲。
One argument in favor of supporting agricultural prices is that it stimulates agricultural technology and boosts crop yields.
有一种观点认为农业价格支持可以刺激农业技术的发展并提高作物产量。
What gave me courage to voice this argument was the conviction that I would never see an angel.
我之所以有勇气提出这一理由是因为我深信我永远也不会见到天使的。
You stood stiff in a foolish argument yesterday.
昨天你倔强地坚持着愚蠢的议论。
The argument centered on whether a fast trotting horse ever had all four feet off the ground at one time.
争论的焦点，是一匹飞速奔跑的马会不会在同一时间里将四条腿都离开地面。
On the surface that seems like a great argument, but it's completely unnecessary.
从表面上看，这是个不可批驳的理由，但是实际上这是完全无用的。
When it was clear that nobody was particularly interested in the matter, apart from protagonists, the heat went out of the argument.
当人们弄清楚除了倡议者之外没谁对这个问题特别感兴趣后，辩论的气氛就不大激烈了。
In the long run, notwithstanding the mountains of argument pro and con, a tariff is irrelevant to the question of employment.
尽管有成堆的支持和反对的意见，长期而言，关税与就业问题是无关的。
I'm going to move on, and yes you can make an argument out of that but let me just move on and show you exactly why I say that.
我继续讲，你们可以提出一个论点，但是我继续讲，并让你们知道为什么我那样说。
Popovich also said he did not agree with the argument of those who say they can no longer win.
波波维奇还表示，他不同意那些说他们已经无法再夺冠了的说法。
But if we put this together for a valid argument we get that is known to be false, so we know either one of these got to be false.
但是如果我们一起放出这个，作为有效论点，我们知道的就为假，所以我们知道两者中的一个为假。
Object inheritance is best applied to behavior, not data (see [Auer] for a lucid argument on this point).
对象继承最好应用于行为而非数据（请参见[Auer]对这个问题透彻的论证）。
The nonspecialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.
非专业人士至少可以了解支持进化论的各种数据和观点。
A fearful hullabaloo has recently been raised with this sort of argument in the form of the "one doctrine" theory.
这种议论，在所谓“一个主义”的标题之下，已经变成了狂妄的叫嚣。
Whenever amateurs and professionals are on the opposite sides of an argument, you know which side to choose.
无论何时只要业余选手和专业交易者的意见相反，你心里应该明白谁是对的。
The argument he used to justify his position proved to be a double-edged sword which ultimately led to his own defeat.
他用以证明自己立场正确的论据，结果却成了导致他自己败北的双刃利剑了。
The argument bureau of ShunZhi wrote the glorious page in the history book of China's modern history though it had a certain of limits.
顺直谘议局虽有一定的时代局限性，但在中国近代宪政史上书写了辉煌的一页。
To this end, he could always interrupt the conversation of a female, until she "understands" his argument so far insisted.
为此，他可能老是打断谈话的女伴，直到她“明白”他所坚持的论点为止。
Nor aught else, except a brief, pithy, and, AS it then appeared to him, unanswerable argument against the immortality of the human soul.
也想不起别的，只是说了一句简练的反对人类灵魂不朽的话，他当时觉得这是无可辩驳的论点。
The government seems to have got caught up in the argument between Russia and America.
政府似乎已被卷进了苏美争端中。
And because many of the networking tools can take input from a file, you can use the length of such a file as an argument to --size.
因为许多网络工具可以从文件接收输入，可以使用文件的长度作为--size选项的参数。
You could make a fairly tight argument to say that it is the single greatest health threat that has ever faced the human species.
人们可以有相当确凿的证据说，这是有史以来人类物种所面临的唯一最大的健康威胁。
If the complex argument of this book had to be reduced to a single sentence, that would be it.
如果这洋洋洒洒一本书的主要论点缩减成一句话，那么就应该是这句了。
This statement has no causal relationship demonstrated in the argument, whether the results of the survey are accurate or not.
无论调查的结果准确与否，这一说法与论点都缺乏因果关系。
Avoiding conflict was associated with more symptoms of physical problems the next day than was actually engaging in an argument.
与正面产生冲突相比，委曲求全会在次日产生更多健康问题的征兆。
Do you really believe that sophomoric argument?
你当真相信那种幼稚可笑的论点吗？
Let's assume for the sake of argument that we can't start till March.
为方便讨论起见，先假定我们要到三月份才能开始。
We should ground our argument on facts.
我们应该根据事实而立论。
There is a hole in your argument.
你的辩论中有一个漏洞。
