| 释义 |
bone of contentionA subject or issue over which there is continuing disagreement: the examination system has long been a serious bone of contention...- Road safety and pollution issues were the main bones of contention, with frequent tailbacks of lorries billowing fumes into people's homes, he said.
- The issue has been a bone of contention for several years between Mid West farmers and State Government authorities.
- In the last century the same conflicts led to the First World War and continued to be a bone of contention throughout the Second.
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