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N-VAR
爭吵;吵鬧
A dispute is an argument or disagreement between people or groups.
例句
They have won previous pay disputes with the government...
在先前和政府的工資糾紛中他們贏了。
Negotiators failed to resolve the bitter dispute between the European Community and the United States over cutting subsides to farmers.
談判者未能消弭歐共體和美國之間在削減農民補貼一事上的爭端。
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VERB
質疑(事實、聲明或理論)；對…表示異議
If you dispute a fact, statement, or theory, you say that it is incorrect or untrue.
例句
He disputed the allegations...
他對指控表示懷疑。
Nobody disputed that Davey was clever...
沒有人懷疑戴維是聰明的。
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V-RECIP
爭奪
When people dispute something, they fight for control or ownership of it. You can also say that one group of people dispute something with another group.
例句
Russia and Ukraine have been disputing the ownership of the fleet...
俄羅斯和烏克蘭一直在爭奪艦隊的所有權。
Fishermen from Bristol disputed fishing rights with the Danes.
布里斯托爾的漁民與丹麥人爭奪捕魚權。
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PHR-RECIP
有爭端;有分歧;有糾紛
If two or more people or groups are in dispute, they are arguing or disagreeing about something.
例句
The two countries are in dispute over the boundaries of their coastal waters...
兩國在近海水域分界線上尚存分歧。
It is currently in dispute with the government over price fixing.
目前在定價上和政府還有爭議。
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PHRASE
在爭論中;處于爭議中
If something is in dispute, people are questioning it or arguing about it.
例句
All those matters are in dispute and it is not for me to decide them.
所有這些事項都尚無定論，也不是我可以決定的。