moot point

短语

[法] 练习辩论的要点, 未决要点

词形变化

moot points 复数 moot points

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An issue that is subject to, or open for, discussion or debate, to which no satisfactory answer is found; originally, one to be definitively determined by an assembly of the people.

  2. 2.

    An issue hardly worth debating because it is no longer practically applicable.

    Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.

    Who really owned that horse is a moot point now that it has run away.

词源

From moot (“assembly”) + point.

来源：wiktionary