a long or elaborate essay or discussion on a particular subject 专题论文;专题讨论 nothing can kill a radio show quicker than a disquisition on intertextual analysis. 没有什么比关于篇章间分析的讨论更能毁掉一场广播节目的。
派生 disquisitional adjective
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语源
late 15th cent.: via French from Latin disquisitio(n-) 'investigation', based on quaerere 'seek'. The original sense was 'topic for investigation', whence 'discourse in which a subject is investigated' (mid 17th cent.)