debate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 争论， 辩论，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They sat down, therefore, and held debate with one another.
-- Then spoke Thoas son of Andraemon, leader of the Ae-tolians, a man who could throw a good throw, and who was staunch also in close fight, while few could surpass him in debate when opinions were divided.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No discussion at the Digamma Pi supper table was more violent than the incessant debate over the value to a doctor, a decent normal doctor who made a good living and did not worry about reading papers at medical associations, of remembering anatomical terms.
-- Mr. and Mrs. Tozer said they were all to be calm, and of course Bert didn't mean-- But really, it was true; they had to be sensible, and how Mr. Arrowsmith could expect to support a wife-- The conference lasted till nine-thirty, which, as Mr. Tozer pointed out, was everybody's bedtime, and except for the five-minute discussion as to whether Miss Ada Quist was to stay to supper, and the debate on the saltiness of this last cornbeef, they clave faithfully to the inquiry as to whether Martin and Leora were engaged.
-- For the first time in his centuries of debate with the Tozers, he was melodramatic.
-- He reflected (it was an international debate in which he was joined by a few and damned by many) that half a dozen generations nearly free from epidemics would produce a race so low in natural immunity that when a great plague, suddenly springing from almost-zero to a world-smothering cloud, appeared again, it might wipe out the world entire, so that the measures to save lives to which he lent his genius might in the end be the destruction of all human life.
-- The answer is that very few ever do, under any condition, willingly leave a soft bed for a shanty bunk in order to be pure, as you very properly call it, and those of us that are pioneers-- Oh, this debate could go on forever!We could prove that I'm a hero or a fool or a deserter or anything you like, but the fact is I've suddenly seen I must go!I want my freedom to work, and I herewith quit whining about it and grab it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had a debate about it and I described it to her.
-- 'We had a debate lately on the question: Has a member of the community the right to enter another member's room, whether man or woman, at any time 芒聙娄 and we decided that he has!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Swiveller, having always been in some measure of a philosophic and reflective turn, grew immensely contemplative, at times, in the smoking-box, and was accustomed at such periods to debate in his own mind the mysterious question of Sophronia's parentage.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The debate upon it grew so lively, indeed, that at least six more honorable members told six more, during the discussion, that they believed they knew where they were to be found.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the mean time the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what course should be taken with me; and I was af- 29terwards assured by a particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me.
-- This doctor therefore proposed, 'that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day's debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the na-ture of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, at-tended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, 235palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.'
-- For he argued thus: 'that the two half brains being left to debate the matter between themselves within the space of one skull, would soon come to a good understanding, and produce that moderation, as well as regularity of thinking, so much to be wished for in the heads of those, who imagine they come into the world only to watch and govern its motion: and as to the differ-ence of brains, in quantity or quality, among those who are directors in faction, the doctor assured us, from his own knowledge, that 'it was a perfect trifle.'
-- I heard a very warm debate between two professors, about the most commodious and effectual ways and means of raising money, without grieving the subject.
-- 345Chapter IX A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Dorrit's satisfaction in remembering that it had not been necessary for him to announce himself to Clennam and Co., or to make an allusion to his having had any knowledge of the intrusive person of that name, had been damped over-night, while it was still fresh, by a debate that arose within him whether or no he should take the Marshalsea in his way back, and look at the old gate.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He read a long debate with the most amiable readiness and then explained it in his most lucid manner, while Meg tried to look deeply interested, to ask intelligent questions, and keep her thoughts from wandering from the state of the nation to the state of her bonnet.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now I began to think sedately; and, upon debate with myself, I concluded that this island (which was so exceedingly pleasant, fruit-ful, and no farther from the mainland than as I had seen) was not so entirely abandoned as I might imagine; that al-though there were no stated inhabitants who lived on the spot, yet that there might sometimes come boats off from the shore, who, either with design, or perhaps never but when they were driven by cross winds, might come to this place; that I had lived there fifteen years now and had not met with the least shadow or figure of any people yet; and that, if at any time they should be driven here, it was prob-able they went away again as soon as ever they could, seeing they had never thought fit to fix here upon any occasion; that the most I could suggest any danger from was from any casual accidental landing of straggling people from the main, who, as it was likely, if they were driven hither, were here against their wills, so they made no stay here, but went off again with all possible speed; seldom staying one night on shore, lest they should not have the help of the tides and daylight back again; and that, therefore, I had nothing to do but to consider of some safe retreat, in case I should see any savages land upon the spot.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last evening came, and with it hunger and a debate with himself as to how he should spend the night.
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