音标:[kən'tenʃnz] ;
n. 竞争( contention的复数形式 ); 争夺; 争论; 论点
n. a point asserted as part of an argument
n. a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
n. the act of competing as for profit or a prize

193. Steinhenge斯坦亨格 rite-ruins On the Strawberry Plain in Kringland, stand the ruins of an ancient culture, which are called Steinhenge. The people of this culture, the Welts, had a priestly class called the Kruids. The rubble that stands the

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Not surprisingly, such aspersions were indignantly met in America. Thomas Jefferson incorporated a furious (and, unless the context is understood, quite bewildering) rebuttal in his Notes on the State of Virginia, and induced his New Hampshire friend

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