| 单词 | vexed question | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasvexed question  4.  Much debated or contested; contentious; (hence) difficult to resolve, complicated. Earliest in  vexed question				 [after post-classical Latin vexata quaestio vexata quaestio n.]			. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > 			[noun]		 > matter of controversy causea1500 wrangle1579 vexed question1614 vexata quaestioa1634 controversial1653 battlefield1820 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > 			[noun]		 > of debate or discussion > much debated vexed question1614 1614    J. Selden Titles of Honor  i. iii. 56  				Constantin's Donation (a vext question). 1657    P. Heylyn Ecclesia Vindicata 215  				Nor do I mean to meddle in so vexed a question. 1743    Swinburne's Treat. Test. & Last Wills 		(ed. 6)	  vii. x. 506  				What shall be the Conclusion of this vexed question? 1828    Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 4 364  				More pressing employments compel me at present to abstain from the discussion of this ‘much-vexed’ topic, to which he so obligingly invites me. 1832    J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law 		(ed. 2)	 IV.  vi. lviii. 154 		(note)	  				The question, whether taking a bond or bill destroyed the lien, has been quite a vexed one in the books. 1847    Brit. Amer. Jrnl. Med. & Physical Sci. Apr. 318/2  				Life! this is my topic. It is..a trite, mooted, vexed subject. 1874    J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece ii. 9  				The great vexed question of the origin and composition of the Homeric poems. 1927    E. V. Knox Awful Occasions 58  				The vexed topic of dandelions as a diet for half bred Angoras. 1972    Jrnl. Mod. Lit. 2 459  				I would like to take up the vexed question of the notes to the poem and Eliot's use of ‘sources’. 1985    Financial Times 10 July 4/1  				The talks..broke down essentially over the vexed issue of sovereignty over the islands. 2011    Independent 14 Dec. 18/5  				Not a mention of ‘slurping’ in your voluminous correspondence on the vexed question of how soup is consumed. < as lemmas | 
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