音标:[mu:t] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 大会, 模拟案件, 辩论会
a. 未决议的, 无实际意义的
vt. 讨论, 争论
n. a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
s. of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
词型变化:过去分词 : mooted ; 名词复数形式 : moots ; 第三人称单数 : moots ; 现在分词 : mooting ; 过去式 : mooted ; 形容词比较级 : mooter ; 形容词最高级 : mootest
词性分布:
形容词70%
动词30%

moot的用法和样例:

例句

  1. It's a moot point whether men or women are better drivers.男女司机孰优孰劣尚有争论。
  2. The question was first mooted many years ago.这个问题是许多年前就提出的。

词汇搭配

  • moot court(法学专业学生实习的...
  • a moot question有待进一步讨论的问题...
  • a moot point有待进一步讨论的问题...

经典引文

  • The point was very moot, and for a moment he hesitated.

    出自:P. G. Wodehouse
  • Whether he could have bitten us successfully..was rather a moot point.

    出自:G. Durrell
  • Wright Morris's About Fiction tackles this moot subject with the..resistant prose of his own fiction.

    出自:J. Updike
  • Ideas about the possibility of a Zionist state were beginning to be mooted.

    出自:J. N. Isbister
  • As the months went by..the mooted job..receded even further into improbability.

    出自:J. F. Lehmann
【近义词】

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Here we go. OK. 好的,我们来亲眼看看吧 I'm back in my truck, and we drove over the Brooklyn Bridge. 回到我刚才提到的卡车,我们把它开到布鲁克林大桥 We're coming down, and we bring that truck that you just saw somewher

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