' Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion.
’没有人反驳这位先知绅士的意见。
为女权辩护(下)
And that women, from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.
而女性,从她们的教育和文明生活的现状来看,处于同样的状态,我认为,这是无可争议的。
简·爱(原版)
" I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert" .
“我有一个事实的证人,他的证词即使是你,先生,也几乎不会反驳”。
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It came to Catherine with the force—or rather with the vague impressiveness—of a logical axiom which it was not in her province to controvert; and yet, though it was a scientific truth, she felt wholly unable to accept it.
Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – "turned in an opposite direction," from contra – "against" – and vertere – to turn, or versus (see verse), hence, "to turn against."