Discuss

(v. t.) To break to pieces; to shatter.

(v. t.) To break up; to disperse; to scatter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors.

(v. t.) To shake; to put away; to finish.

(v. t.) To examine in detail or by disputation; to reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate.

(v. t.) To deal with, in eating or drinking.

(v. t.) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

手打:朱迪

• We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I never discuss a Saint after dark, I said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• To make short of a long story, I am afraid I have wanted an object; but I have an object now--or it has me--and it is too late to discuss it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is impossible to discuss that time without discussing our own time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• They discussed the matter thoroughly but arrived at no solution. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The subject of reading aloud was farther discussed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• We have already discussed the relationship of social development to the restriction of the idea of property (chap. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr and Mrs Boffin, sitting side by side, with Fashion withdrawn to an immeasurable distance, fell to discussing how they could best find their orphan. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Why, that is the very point, Sophronia, that Georgiana and I were discussing as to herself! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They found Margaret with a letter open before her, eagerly discussing its contents with her father. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science to-day discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As for him, he methodically discusses his matter of business as if she were any insensible instrument used in business. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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