英语词汇“vexed question”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. Much debated or contested; contentious; (hence) difficult to resolve, complicated. Earliest in vexed question [after post-classical Latin vexata quaestio vexata quaestio n.] .

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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.

单词	vexed question
释义	> as lemmas vexed 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. extracted from vexedadj.n. < as lemmas
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