discuss

记忆“discuss”可以通过联想其词根“disc”，它与“dis”有关，意味着分开或分散。想象一群人把不同的观点分散开来，每个人都在发表自己的意见，从而进行“discuss”讨论。这种方法通过将单词的意义和行为画面化，帮助记忆。

discuss 讨论

dis-, 分开，散开。-cuss, 摇，震荡，词源同concussion,percussion. 引申词义谈话，讨论。

discuss

discuss: [14] The ultimate source of discuss meant ‘smash to pieces’. It comes from discuss-, the past participle stem of Latin discutere, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘apart’ and quatere ‘shake’ (from which English also gets concussion and quash). Its literal meaning was ‘smash apart, break up’, and this gradually developed via ‘scatter, disperse’ to, in post-classical times, ‘investigate, examine’ and eventually ‘debate’.

The apparently wide semantic discrepancy between ‘scatter, disperse’ and ‘examine’ was probably bridged by some such intermediate notion as ‘disperse or separate in the mind so as to distinguish and identify each component’.
=> concussion, quash

discuss (v.)

mid-14c., "to examine, investigate," from Latin discuss-, past participle stem of discutere "to dash to pieces, agitate," in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin also "to discuss, investigate" (see discussion). Meaning "examine by argument, debate" is from mid-15c. Related: Discussed; discussing.

1. The Politburo has been meeting in Peking to discuss the situation.

政治局已在北京召开会议讨论形势。

2. Senior politicians met today to discuss the future of European economic unity.

高级政要今天会晤，探讨欧洲经济一体化的未来。

3. The magazine's aim is to discuss topical issues within a Christian framework.

该杂志的宗旨是在基督教框架下讨论时下的热门话题。

4. All he ever does is discuss the same boring list of medications.

他就会翻来覆去讨论同一个无聊的药品单。

5. They will discuss how to bail the economy out of its slump.

他们将讨论如何使经济走出低谷。

【argue, reason, discuss, dispute, debate, quarrel】
这组词都有“辩论，争论，说理”的意思，其区别是：
argue: 指提出理由或证据为自己或自己一方的看法或立场辩护，着重说理、论证和企图说服。
reason: 指据理力争以说服对方或求得对问题作更深入的研究。
discuss: 最常用词，指就某一或某些问题表明观点、看法等，以便统一认识，解决问题。
dispute: 侧重对分歧进行激烈或热烈的争论或争辩，带一定感情色彩，常隐含“各持已见”或“争论不休”意味。
debate: 侧重指意见等对立的双方之间正式或公开的争辩。
quarrel: 指两人之间或两个团体之间不友好的、吵吵嚷嚷地大声争论某事，尤指“吵嘴、吵架”。