argue，debate，controvert，polemize，reason ；

[例句] 有必要让公众在充分知情的状况下展开辩论。 There needs to be a properly informed public debate.

[例句] 20世纪最了不起的辩论家非列昂·托洛茨基莫属。 The greatest polemicist of the 20th century must be Leon Trotsky.

speak [come out] in defense of，argue in favour of，[律]plead，defend，advocacy ；

[例句] 赫伯特叔叔从不与人争吵，也从不为自己辩护。 Uncle Herbert never argued, never spoke up for himself.

[例句] 维克多·什科洛夫斯基为这本书公开辩护。 Viktor Shklovsky spoke out in defence of the book.

sophistry，sophism，quibbling，casuistry，choplogic ；

[例句] 国务卿已被那些诡辩之词给说服了。 The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.

[例句] 政治选举更多地取决于诡辩的能力，而不在于是否懂经济。 Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.

argue，debate，contend，contention，contest ；

[例句] 他并非在争辩中总是能赢，但他经常是对的。 He didn't always win the arguments, but he often was right.

[例句] 国际象棋大师们以性格怪异和好与人争辩而闻名。 Great chess players have a reputation for being both eccentric and argumentative.

dispute，argue and refute，refute，controvert，elenchus ；

[例句] 这些照片为这起事件提供了不容辩驳的证据。 The pictures provide irrefutable evidence of the incident.

[例句] 军官发出了不容许辩驳的命令. The officer issued peremptory commands.

provide an explanation，argue that ...，justify，explain away，allegation ；

[例句] 破坏了医院的纪律，埃米将不得不为自己辩解。 Hospital discipline was broken. Amy would have to explain herself.

[例句] 我不太善于为自己辩解。 I'm not very good at explaining myself.

make open reply，reply (to a charge, query or an argument)，reply in support of one's own idea or opinion，answer，rejoin ；

[例句] 她因受到挑衅而过失杀人的有罪答辩被驳回。 Her plea of guilty to manslaughter through provocation was rejected.

[例句] 他们无法给她定罪. 她的答辩无懈可击. They won't find her guilty. She's got a, cast - iron de ` fence.

contradict，speak out in one's own defense，[律] counterplead，demurrer，answer ；

[例句] 以无知为理由而提出的抗辩是不能成立的. No plea can be set up on the ground of ignorance.

[例句] 他针对对他的指控提出 “ 无罪 ” 的抗辩. He entered a plea of " not guilty " to the charges filed against him.

paraclete，[法] advocate，advocati，assertor，[电影]Obzalovany；

[例句] 你准备好反驳辩护人提出的问题了 吗 ? Are you ready to plead against the case offered by the defendant?

[例句] 辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人. The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.

defend oneself，explain oneself，argue one's case，averment，excuse ；

[例句] 他一直申辩自己是无辜的。 He has always protested his innocence.

[例句] 他以精神不健全为由申辩无罪。 He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

convincing argument，eloquence，declamation，fluency ；

[例句] 或许是你的雄辩使情况发生了变化。 Perhaps your force of argument might have made some difference.

[例句] 他既展示出震撼人心的雄辩术，又显露了矢志不移的决心。 He displayed determination as well as powerful oratory.

[书] eloquence ；

[例句] 我佩服某些政治家的辩才. I admire the oratory of some politicians.

[例句] 那些雇来的演说家继续滔滔不绝地施展辩才. The hired orators continued to pour forth their streams of eloquence.

offer an explanation，plead innocence，try to defend oneself，try to justify (oneself for one's behaviour, etc.) ；

[例句] 事态一旦平息，贝克就为他的决定辩白。 Once the dust had settled Beck defended his decision.

[例句] 几星期来,我从你那儿听到的只是辩白之词. I have received nothing but excuse from you for weeks.

（关于普遍联系和发展的哲学学说） dialectics，dialectic ；

[例句] 要提倡唯物辩证法,反对形而上学和烦琐哲学. Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics and scholasticism.

[例句] 辩证法研究对立物是怎样变统一的. Dialectic studies how opposites can become identical.

apologist，defender，proponent，justifier，apologizer ；

[例句] 他们以我的辩护者身分讲了最令人感激的话. They spoke most kindly as my compurgators.

[例句] 那么被告在这里 吗 ?以及他的辩护者(也在么)? Reverend Judge : And is the accused here? And his defender?

speculation，speculativeness，speculativism ；

[例句] 风擅长沟通表达, 和智力思辩,头脑敏捷的. Ik Wind Communicative, mental and agile.

[例句] 艾略特的伟作《荒原》以其诱人的思辩力量震撼着诗坛. Eliot s great work The Waste Land shakes the poetry circle for its captivating thinking power.

dialectic ；

[例句] 分析的方法就是辩证的方法. The analytic method is dialectical.

[例句] 它是对资本主义的深刻的 、 辩证的 、 历史的剖析. It is pair of capitalist profundity, adj, of the history analyse.

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[例句] 他不明白自己怎么也居然成为了恐怖的第三十五号修正案的辩护士了. How, he wondered, had he become a champion of the horrendous 35 th Amendment?

[例句] 这个意见很好, 被告的辩护士立刻采取了这一着. It was a good idea, and caught at by the counsel for the defense.

rant ；

[例句] 经过一番激辩后,这项提议已经撤消. After a lively controversy the proposal was withdrawn.

[例句] 在一轮激辩后,反方香港树仁大学辩论队获胜. The winning team for the Match was Hong Kong Shue Yan University against the motion.

apologetical，exculpatory，excusatory，[法] apologetic ；

[例句] 越为自己辩解的人越暴露自己的错误. He who excuses himself exposes himself.

[例句] 她有什么要为自己辩解的 吗 ? What has she to say for herself?