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论点
Argument
There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.
我们的许多论点都被事件所证实，从中得不到任何满足。
Most arguments are instances of an inability to make it clear that we are essentially in agreement.
大多数争论都是无法表明我们基本上意见一致的实例。
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
一个人可以把一艘草原纵帆船开过他的论点的任何部分，而不去触及事实。
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
永远不要在餐桌上争论，因为不饿的人总是占得上风。
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
有时候，我们否认自己值得表扬，希望引发一场我们愿意输掉的争论。
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
我的观点是，我不认为有多少真正的政治艺术是好的艺术。
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
咆哮，咆哮，质问，吹毛求疵;但要确保你的论点足够复杂，足以让法庭感到困惑。
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
如果你觉得自己凌驾于大众之上，那就说出来，把大众提升到你的论点的高度。
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
首先，你可以提出这样的论点，没有过去。没有人生活在过去。
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
所有被拿来代表贫穷没有罪恶的论点都清楚地表明贫穷是一种大罪恶。
The primordial argument against giving woman the vote is that that vote would not represent physical force.
反对赋予妇女投票权的最原始的理由是，这种投票权不代表体力。
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
艾滋病绝对是一种悲惨的疾病。关于艾滋病是神的惩罚的争论是一派胡言。
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An argument derived from the abuse of a thing does not hold good against its use.
由滥用某物而产生的论点，对其使用是站不住脚的。
Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.
用侮辱代替争论是心胸狭窄的表现。
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
当然:一个人的副词，没有争论。
I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!
我告诉我的孩子们不要和他们的妹妹玩得粗野。我试着把我已经知道的教给他们:你永远不会在和一个女孩的争吵中获胜，所以让她拥有她想要的!
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
明喻证明不了什么，但却极大地减轻和减轻了争论的单调。