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单词 arguable
释义
arguable
adjective
uk
/ˈɑːɡ.ju.ə.bəl/us
/ˈɑːrɡ.ju.ə.bəl/
If something is arguable, there could be somedisagreementabout it:
有疑问的；有商榷余地的；可争辩的
It is arguable which way isquicker.走哪条路更快，还没有定论。
it is arguable that...
it ispossiblytruethat:
有理由说…
It is arguable that thegovernmenthasfailedin thisrespect.有理由说政府在这个方面失职了。
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(Definition ofarguablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

arguable| American Dictionary

arguable
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈɑr·ɡju·ə·bəl/

arguableadjective[not gradable](GIVE REASONS)

possibleto givereasonsfor and against;debatable:
It’s arguable that anotherroutewould be just asbad.
(Definition ofarguablefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofarguable

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In rendering them amenable for inclusion into current concepts, it isarguablethat our modern conceptual grid tends severely to distort past disease pictures.
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In the case of markets it isarguablethat their most enthusiastic advocates are unitarists at heart.
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Most of it focused, not on the authors' few factual errors or mostarguableinterpretations of clouded events, but on their overall perspective.
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They dealt witharguablequestions that arose between people from different volosts and uezds.
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There is anarguabledegree of insensitivity and arrogance here.
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I prefer the ' early ' chronology of 307/8 to the more traditional date of early 312, although both remainarguable.
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Nevertheless, it isarguablethat the interests of people with disabilities need to be addressed in the formulation of the policies underlying these practices.
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Is itarguablethat the finality of positive law is caused by the finality of "law as determined by practical reasonableness"?
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However, this isarguable, as if semelfactives have no natural final endpoint, how can they produce iterative readings ?
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However, it isarguablewhether the acquisition of these features are rule-based or lexically motivated.
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Moreover, it isarguablethat communal rhetoric of inclusion succeeded only in making the institutions and attitudes it served more exclusive.
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Still, it isarguablethat knowledge is bounded.
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Again, it isarguablethat this classification is unsatisfactory.
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Similarly, although psychophysical supervenience is anarguableview, it would be manifestly implausible to hold that the physical supervenes on the psychological.
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Presumably this predisposes to sudden death, but the association of sudden death and junctional rhythms isarguable.
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