arguing
present participle ofargue
| 单词 | arguing |
| 释义 | arguing present participle ofargue argue verb uk/ˈɑːɡ.juː/us/ˈɑːrɡ.juː/argueverb(DISAGREE)B1[I] tospeakangrilyto someone,tellingthatpersonthat youdisagreewith them: Thechildrenare always arguing. Kids, will youstoparguingwitheach other? They were arguingover/aboutwhichfilmto go andsee. to argue with someone
Arguing & disagreeing
argueverb(GIVE REASONS)B2[IorT] to give thereasonsforyouropinion,idea,belief, etc.: Thesenatorarguedfor/infavourof/againstmakingcutsinmilitaryspending. [+ that]Thesenatorarguedthatcutsinmilitaryspendingwereneeded. You can argue thecaseeither way. See also well argued
Defining & explaining
argueverb(SHOW)[T] to show that something istrueorexists: Theevidenceargues achangeinpolicy. Showing and demonstrating
Idiomargue the toss Examplesofarguingarguing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Could one overcome the threat to the interest theory byarguingthat interests are ranked only by their contribution to further interests? From theCambridge English Corpus We have applied the same idea to teaching music byarguingfor body movement as a physical metaphor between musical activities and conceptual thinking. From theCambridge English Corpus They described artists with low prestige as 'useless',arguingthat they 'could have never existed and it would not have changed anything about anything'. From theCambridge English Corpus Arguingthat the existing crisis was hurting society as a whole, the socialists demanded from government and parliament prompt measures to alleviate the situation. From theCambridge English Corpus To follow this proposal yields, we arearguing, two major advantages. From theCambridge English Corpus We reject (many of these) proposals byarguingthat they are excessively utopian. From theCambridge English Corpus Recent literature, in contrast, has tended to reject this stance,arguinginstead that military efficiency was influenced heavily by societal culture. From theCambridge English Corpus Indeed, increasingly there are dissonent voices in the history of the body, sexuality, and genderarguingfor a distinctive approach to change in these areas. From theCambridge English Corpus All of these authors call into question cultural relativism,arguingthat it has been used to prevent women's voices and rights. From theCambridge English Corpus Once more the architectural specialists looked at the designs without conferring, and again found themselvesarguingessentially the same case. From theCambridge English Corpus Many other examples, ranging from neighboursarguingover trespass to alleged thieves being prosecuted before sheriff courts, could be given. From theCambridge English Corpus They were also less satisfied than the others with their present amount of free time,arguingthat they had too much. From theCambridge English Corpus The paper concludes byarguingthat early retirement needs to be studied as a process involving the interplay between structure and agency. From theCambridge English Corpus This runs against work on congressional electionsarguingthat they are non-ideological. From theCambridge English Corpus This is the essence of the kind of relational archaeology for which we arearguing. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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