音标:[mu:t] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
n. 大会, 模拟案件, 辩论会
a. 未决议的, 无实际意义的
vt. 讨论, 争论
n. a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
s. of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
词型变化:过去分词 : mooted ; 名词复数形式 : moots ; 第三人称单数 : moots ; 现在分词 : mooting ; 过去式 : mooted ; 形容词比较级 : mooter ; 形容词最高级 : mootest
词性分布:
形容词70%
动词30%

moot的用法和样例:

例句

  1. It's a moot point whether men or women are better drivers.男女司机孰优孰劣尚有争论。
  2. The question was first mooted many years ago.这个问题是许多年前就提出的。

词汇搭配

  • moot court(法学专业学生实习的...
  • a moot question有待进一步讨论的问题...
  • a moot point有待进一步讨论的问题...

经典引文

  • The point was very moot, and for a moment he hesitated.

    出自:P. G. Wodehouse
  • Whether he could have bitten us successfully..was rather a moot point.

    出自:G. Durrell
  • Wright Morris's About Fiction tackles this moot subject with the..resistant prose of his own fiction.

    出自:J. Updike
  • Ideas about the possibility of a Zionist state were beginning to be mooted.

    出自:J. N. Isbister
  • As the months went by..the mooted job..receded even further into improbability.

    出自:J. F. Lehmann
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