We spoke, debated, gossiped into the night.

我们交谈、争论、闲聊到夜间。

The students debated the aesthetic of the poems.

学生就这些诗的美感展开了辩论。

This was debated eagerly at first, but with diminishing coherence as the champagne took hold.

辩论一开始满热烈的，可是上了香槟后，条理性就降低了。

All still hotly debated.

这一切仍在被人们激烈辩论。

The most radical strategy being debated among conservation biologists is Assisted Migration.

保护生物学家们争论的最激进的策略是辅助迁移。

Whether or not we can catch up on sleep—on the weekend, say—is a hotly debated topic among sleep researchers.

我们是否能在周末补觉是睡眠研究者们激烈争论的话题。

Whether or not we can catch up on sleep on the weekend, say — is a hotly debated topic among sleep researchers.

例如，我们是否能在周末补觉是睡眠研究者们争论的热点话题。

It was fabulous to read these people as they debated what will happen to Russia, the kind of westerners and those in between.

西方两派间关于俄国走向的辩论，读起来实在是一件快事。

Secretary of State John Kerry debated with members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in the first publichearing on the Iran nuclear deal.

美国国务卿约翰·克里星期四与美国参议院议员就伊朗核协议进行了首次公开辩论。

Secretary of State John Kerry debated with members of the U.S. Senate Thursday in the first public hearing on the Iran nuclear deal.

星期四美国国务卿约翰·克里与美国参议院议员就伊朗核协议进行了首次公开辩论。

The issues were debated on the floor of the House.

这些问题在众议院议政厅进行了辩论。

Taggart debated whether to have yet another double vodka.

塔格特考虑着是否要再来一杯双份伏特加。

She debated with herself for a while, and then picked up the phone.

她仔细琢磨了一会儿，然后拿起了电话。

Doctrinal differences were vigorously debated among religious leaders.

宗教领袖们就教义上的区别展开了激烈的辩论。

Mays rendered her suit debated.

梅斯对她的诉讼提出了争议。

The decision to leave Kimberly with Mr. Mays rendered her suit debated.

把金伯利留给梅斯先生的判决使她的诉讼案引起争议。

With a new farm bill to be debated in Congress, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.

国会将就一项新的农业法案进行辩论，消费者必须站在年轻农民一方。

The Gutenberg revolution, as we now know it, took a long time; its effects are still being debated.

正如我们现在所知，古腾堡革命花了很长时间；它的影响仍处于争议中。

Aristotle and Socrates debated the nature of "akrasia"—our tendency to do things against our interests.

亚里士多德和苏格拉底讨论了“无自制力”的本质——我们倾向于做违背自己利益的事情。

Scientists studying the physiology of dinosaurs have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded.

长期以来，研究恐龙生理学的科学家们一直在争论恐龙到底是温血动物还是冷血动物。

These days young girls are travelling abroad to receive plastic surgeries, which deserves to be debated publicly.

如今，年轻女孩出国接受整形手术，这值得进行公开讨论。

In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth's continents were mobile.

1912年，阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳在一个被称为“大陆漂移”的理论中提出，地球上的大陆是可移动的。

One of the debated cures for this labor shortage remains as implausible as it's been all along: Native workers won't be returning to the farm.

而针对劳动力短缺的一个有争议的解决方法仍然像以往一样天方夜谭，毕竟美国本土工人不会回到农场工作。

Although the remarkable antiquity of Australia's rock art is now established, the sequences and meanings of its images have been widely debated.

虽然澳大利亚的岩石艺术非凡的古迹现在已经得到承认，它图像的顺序和意义一直被广泛地讨论。

Exactly why animals play is still a matter debated in the research literature, and the reasons may not be the same for every species that plays.

动物到底为什么要玩耍，这个问题仍然在文献中存在争议，并且每个物种玩耍的原因也不尽相同。

It's a very important explanation and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle, one technique would be that one side would give one great big shove.

它是一种很重要的解释，而且饱受争议，那就是在战局一个重要的时刻，有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推。

Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well.

学者、决策者和各界批评人士都在讨论这些变化所带来的社会影响，但很少有人关注其副作用——家庭风险也在上升。

Biologists have long debated about whether egg production in birds is biologically highly costly, some theorizing that egg production is energetically or nutritionally demanding.

长期以来，生物学家一直在争论鸟类的产蛋在生物学上是否具有很高的成本，有的理论认为产蛋对能量或营养的要求很高。

The more truth is debated, the clearer it becomes.

真理愈辩愈明。

I debated the question with Helen.

我和海伦辩论了这个问题。