Even in Aristotle's time, it appears slavery was a controversial institution and elicited very different kinds of opinions and responses.

就算是在亚里士多德的年代，奴役已经是争议性的制度,且引起了,十分不同的意见与响应。

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.. What the Norwegian Government is doing wrong is-- it's a little bit controversial, my pointing this out to them.

挪威政府做的不对的地方就在于-,这引起了一些争议，我把他们的处境告诉了他们。

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Call them towns for the sake of argument, sounds too urban, but call them that.

称这些为城镇是为了避免引起争议,听起来太城市化了,不过就这么叫吧

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Now his work created a sensation. It undermined of course traditional claims about the authorship of God and the work of Moses. It's still disputed by conservative groups and Roman Catholic authorities, although Roman Catholic scholars certainly teach it and adopt it.

他的作品引起了轰动，当然，它削弱了传统的关于,摩西是”上帝“这个称呼和《律法》的作者的主张,尽管天主教学者也会接受并传授他的作品，但它仍然在保守派和罗马天主教当局中备受争议。

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The SEC was very controversial at first because it was seen as interfering with business and the U.S. Has been built on principles of individual freedom; this seemed like unnecessary government intrusion.

起初,证券交易委员会引起了许多争议,因为人们认为它会干扰商业运作,个人自由是美国的立国之本,政府的干预似乎并非必要

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