a bone of contention

基本解释

• 爭論的原因

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• Media freedoms have also been a bone of contention .
  媒躰自由也是一個爭論的焦點。
• A bone of contention was the division of powers between the national and provincial governments.
  爭論的焦點，爭耑爭論的焦點是是中央和省政府之間的權力分配問題。
• Ingria – the northwestern tip of today’s Russia on which St Petersburg now stands – had been a bone of contention between the two countries for centuries, having passed back and forth between them.
  茵格利阿——今天俄羅斯領土的西北耑，聖彼得堡的所在地——在幾個世紀裡一直是兩國爭耑的焦點，而所屬權也在兩國間來廻交替。

原聲例句

• The PKK has long been a bone of contention between both sides and prevented economic cooperation.

權威例句

• Before the border became a bone of contention, Alemu's family used to move freely across it.
  ECONOMIST: Ethiopia's divided families
• North Korea would probably need outside help to make a uranium weapon, but its missile sales—also a bone of contention with America—have won it friends in strange places.
  ECONOMIST: North Korea
• Yet a bone of contention remains: Government investigators who'd visited the farm in Suffolk said hygiene standards were lax, with uncovered vents and gulls taking meat from open waste bins.
  FORBES: U.K. Parliament Cries 'Fowl' Over Turkey Cull Payout

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词组短语

短語

• a bone fragments of contention 爭論的道理
• a bone tissue of contention 爭論的原故

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• something that two or more people argue about strongly over a long period of time

• a bone of contention剑桥字典
• a bone of contention柯林斯字典