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A disputation is an argument — a discussion where people cannot agree, and they keep pushing their sides. In older and more formal English, it also named a set-piece debate, the kind students once held in universities: one person put a claim, another tried to tear it down, with rules. Today the word feels . News and everyday talk usually say argument, debate, or dispute instead. Though actually, when someone chooses disputation, they often want that older, slightly academic flavour — not a kitchen quarrel, but a clash of reasons. It can sound cool or it can sound stuffy, depending on who is speaking.
爭論；論辯（書面；舊時也指學術辯難）
組成dispute + -ation (the act of), from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.
同家族的字
- disputethe shorter, more everyday word for the same clash
- disputabledescribes a point that can still be argued
- disputatiousdescribes a person who likes to argue
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disputationnoun/dɪsˌpjuːˈteɪʃən/
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The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
- And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
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A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。