moot
moot 英 [mu:t] 美 [mut]
adj. 无实际意义的；未决议的 vt. 提出…供讨论 n. 大会；辩论会；假设案件
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- When a point is moot, it's too trivial to think about. If your basketball team loses by 40 points, the bad call by the official in the first quarter is moot: it isn't important.
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- adj. 无实际意义的；未决议的
- vt. 提出…供讨论
- n. 大会；辩论会；假设案件
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1. But then, too, the question of “when” will be moot.
不过，关于“何时”的问题将也是没有实际意义的。
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2. The issue as to what we’re doing there, or whether we’re being at all successful, is moot to these soldiers.
我们到底在做什么、我们有没有取得成功，这些，对于士兵们来说，都是毫无意义的问题。
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3. It is a moot point but there is an argument in health and safety law that failing to cancel the match carries an exposure to risk and is a breach of the law.
这是一个没有定论的问题，在健康与安全法中也有这样一个争论，无力取消比赛将会使危险暴露出来，而且，这也违反了法律。
- moot (adj.) "debatable; not worth considering" from moot case, earlier simply moot (n.) "discussion of a hypothetical law case" (1530s), in law student jargon. The reference is to students gathering to test their skills in mock cases.
- moot (n.) "assembly of freemen," mid-12c., from Old English gemot "meeting" (especially of freemen, to discuss community affairs or mete justice), "society, assembly, council," from Proto-Germanic *ga-motan (compare Old Low Frankish muot "encounter," Middle Dutch moet, Middle High German muoz), from collective prefix *ga- + *motan (see meet (v.)).
- moot (v.) "to debate," Old English motian "to meet, talk, discuss," from mot (see moot (n.)). Related: Mooted; mooting.
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