一场关于到底发生了什么事的辩论开始了。

A debate arose over what exactly was happening.

youdao

尽管这有点难以置信，但是奥巴马还曾一度勒令众议院和参议员在辩论开始后的三周内通过这项法案。

Hard as it is to believe, at one point Obama was urging the House and Senate to pass legislation by three weeks after they began debating it.

youdao

尽管如此，截至10月20日上午，在第一次候选人电视辩论开始之前，两份调查报告的结果显示，突然间，谢斯·塔克先生头一回稍稍领先。

By October 20th, however, the morning before the first televised debate between the candidates, two new polls suddenly put Mr Sestak narrowly ahead for the first time.

youdao

And what I'm going to be doing, what I'm going to be arguing in this class, is that that set of views is pretty much mistaken from beginning to end.

我准备做什么，我准备在这里和你们辩论，那个观点从一开始到结束都是相当错误的。

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