When the Senate began debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, Stephen Douglas was the first to defend it.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

And I know there's debate on campus about the extent to which there is segregation within the Yale community.

我知道学校里有人在讨论,隔离的现象是否存在于,耶鲁大学里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Cloning? Well, I hate to land on one side of the debate or the other

克隆？我不希望在这种争论中选择某一个立场，

生物克隆是热点问题 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the Senate, sixty votes are needed to prevent unlimited debate on a bill.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And the Senate agreed Saturday to begin full debate on its own bill.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

There are no less than twenty pages devoted to the critical debate on these two lines: what the hell Saint Peter's two-handed engine is, what it looks like, what it does, what -- and everything about it.

集中描写这两行里的争论的,不少于20页：,圣彼得的双手引擎到底是什么，长什么样，用来干什么-和关于它的所有所有。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He said he looked forward to a full debate on the issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Or on the other side, there's a debate about whether Mitt Romney can choose to be, I guess he's trying to choose himself to be on the right hand wing of the republic party, given he has a record of governance, as being governor of Massachusetts when he provided state healthcare for example.

或者在另一派,争论米特·罗姆尼是否会选择,我猜他试图选择作为,右派共和党,考虑到他的政绩,在他作为马萨诸塞州州长期间,他提供了的州卫生保健

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Protesters gathered on the Capitol lawn during the debate, yelling in an attempt to make their own voices heard.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

You'll read more about it in the Peter Gray textbook and more about it in The Norton readings on development, but just to raise this as an interesting area of debate.

你会在彼得·格雷的教材,以及诺顿读本的发展心理学部分,阅读到更多该方面的内容,我说这个只是想将此作为,一个有趣的辩论内容

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He called for people on both sides of the debate to keep an open mind and to stop demonizing each other.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Now to the extent that this discussion is actually about the virginity of the Second Brother and the Elder Brother's sister, it seems, I think, to border on the ridiculous; but the debate, I think, we have to take seriously.

后来这兄弟俩谈论的对象,转到了自己的妹妹的贞洁的时候，就显得有点愚蠢了;,但我觉得这段辩论应当好好研究。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In the final hours of debate on the Senate bill, Republicans asserted it would be ineffective and add sharply to the U.S.budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

A final televised debate is to take place next Thursday, followed by the election on May 6.

VOA: standard.2010.04.23

"I think his motivation is first is to show that he's around." "That he is capable of making decisions or participating in debate on policy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

But Mr.Obama used the opportunity to comment on the tone of the national debate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"We welcome sanctions." He went on to say that Iran has "given its package of proposals" to the world community to debate and resolve the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

It was an unusual Saturday night showdown in the U.S.Senate on whether a health care reform bill pushed by Democrats should proceed to the floor for full debate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

The U.S.Senate is expected to begin debate on financial reforms this week.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

As President Obama loses ground in the debate on overhauling health care, he is using his weekly Internet address to challenge what he calls "phony claims" by his critics.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

So what does it mean to be French today? President Nicolas Sarkozy has tapped another French staple the love of debate to launch a three-month, national conversation on the subject.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

In a Labor Day speech before union workers on Monday, Mr.Obama said it is time for lawmakers to end the debate over health care and pass legislation for him to sign.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

"I think he ought to do what General Petraeus did and that is decide on exactly the number he needs and we debate it and the president makes the ultimate decision,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

The closure of the country's nuclear facility comes amid a debate on how to establish a more secure energy future for the European Union, which is heavily dependent on Russian energy supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

We have got to do something,". Earlier Saturday, in his weekly internet address, Mr.Obama said the country has had a long and important debate on health reform, but it is time to act.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

"But they have to be a little bit careful to overstate that." Both political parties also see the continuing congressional debate on health care reform as a key factor in next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But central to the debate going on in Britain is the very credibility of the Afghan government as more and more question whether British lives should be put at risk in support of what is seen as a less than clean Hamid Karzai government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04