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辩论
Debate
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
这就是我们所缺少的。我们丢失的论点。我们丢失的辩论。我们丢失的对话录。我们错过了很多东西。相反,我们接受。
When you're talking about a trade you're saying, 'Is it good for this team or that team, did they give up too much?' That kind of debate is great for the game.
当你谈论一笔交易时，你是在说，‘他们放弃得太多了吗?他说，这样的辩论对比赛很有好处。
This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
在我看来，这个国家是一个充满侵略性、公开辩论的国家。有句老话说:当每个人都在想同样的事情时，没有人会想太多。
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.
当你的每一个论点都带有试图恢复奴隶制或重新隔离午餐柜台的特征时，要进行任何富有成效的辩论都有点难。
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
我一直意识到，在你改变人们的想法之前，你必须让他们倾听。任何艺术家最大的恐惧都被忽视了，所以如果你有争议，那很好。
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
关于死亡和生命文化的争论大多是关于过程的。争论的焦点是可用的技术，以确定我们如何延长寿命，如何以及何时结束生命。
As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
在国会继续就如何处理非法移民问题进行辩论之际，我们必须记住许多辛勤工作的合法移民，他们为我们国家的经济和文化做出了巨大贡献。
We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
在这场严肃的辩论之前，我们什么也不知道。灵魂必须撤退，因为这不是它的时刻。现在刀要把肉割开，露出来，切成两半。
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.
这个镇上什么都没有安顿下来。一个沸腾的辩论社，辩论永不停止，人们永不放弃，包括我在内。这就是你管理的氛围。
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
当一件事被说成不值得反驳时，你可以肯定它要么是极其愚蠢的(在这种情况下，所有的评论都是多余的)，要么就是某种可怕的东西，问题的关键所在。
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
如果联邦一旦被切断，分离的界线将变得越来越宽，现在在立法大厅里辩论和解决的争议将在战场上进行审判，并由武力来决定。
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.
教育不平等的另一个例子是目前关于公共资助的教育券的辩论，这种教育券将为少数享有特权的人提供教育机会，但剥夺了公立学校迫切需要的资源。
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You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
你必须在衣帽间里解决问题，当你解决了问题之后，你可以在投票前进行一点辩论。
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
争论和意见分歧只能丰富我们的历史和文化。
One can always debate questions back and forth.
人们总是可以反复讨论问题。
It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.
现在是讨论图片的时候了，尤其是当有人因为下载图片而入狱的时候。
Debate is so much better than denial.
辩论比否认好得多。
There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
关于新政的行为究竟是推动了经济复苏，还是阻碍了经济复苏，一直存在着无休止的争议，而这场激烈的辩论永远不会有任何结果，因为永远不可能证明本来会发生什么，而不是发生了什么。