moot

英 [mu?t] 美[mut]

低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

第三人稱(chēng)單數(shù):?moots;過(guò)去式:?mooted;過(guò)去分詞:?mooted;現(xiàn)在分詞:?mooting;

moot 大會(huì)，辯論會(huì)，模擬的，無(wú)實(shí)際意義的

來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*motan,集會(huì)，會(huì)面，詞源同meet.引申詞義大會(huì)，討論會(huì)。后作為法學(xué)院學(xué)生俚語(yǔ)用以指模擬辯論，模擬開(kāi)庭，并引申諷刺詞義無(wú)實(shí)際意義的。

moot: moot: [OE] Etymologically, a ‘moot point’ is one talked about at a ‘meeting’. For ‘meeting’ is the original sense of the noun moot – particularly as applied in early medieval England to a meeting functioning as a court of law. The word goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *mōtam ‘meeting’, source also of English meet. Its modern adjectival usage seems to have emerged in the 16th century. The derived verb moot goes back to Old English times (mōtian ‘converse, plead in court’), but again its present-day use, for ‘suggest, propose’, is a more recent development, dating from the 17th century.
=> meet
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 (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 (v.): "to debate," Old English motian "to meet, talk, discuss," from mot (see moot (n.)). Related: Mooted; mooting.

2. He argued that the issue had become moot since the board had changed its policy.: 他爭(zhēng)辯說(shuō)這項(xiàng)議題已變得毫無(wú)實(shí)際意義，因?yàn)槎聲?huì)已經(jīng)改變了政策。

3. The oil versus nuclear equation is largely moot.: 石油和核能之間的關(guān)系還很有爭(zhēng)議.

4. Since the accusedis already in custody, I assumebail is moot?: 已經(jīng)被告已經(jīng)被在押我推測(cè)保釋有待討論?

5. The question mooted in the board meeting is still a moot point.: 那個(gè)在董事會(huì)上(提出討論)的問(wèn)題仍(未決的).