bitter controversy

双方意见分歧严重

常用释义

激烈争议：指一场激烈的争论或争执，双方意见分歧严重，难以达成共识。

例句

Preemptive Self-defense aroused a bitter controversy over international law of self-defense and the United Nations.

“先发制人”对国际法、联合国造成了巨大的冲击。

But it has also provoked bitter controversy after scientists carbon-dated it to the Middle Ages.

但在科学家以碳元素测定它实为中世纪的产物之后，随即引发了一场激烈的争论。

In neighbouring Greece, there is a bitter controversy over a new textbook for 12 -year-olds.

在相邻的希腊，在给12岁的新的教科书上有很激烈的争论。