He wanted to settle a dispute by argument.

他想通过说理解决争端。

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When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

如果争论不能消除一场灾难，那争论还有什么用呢？

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The jovial, cheerful, humorous people who love peace and are distressed by argument or quarrel, to avoid which they will agree to give up much.

龙芽草的人乐天、开朗、幽默、爱好和平，他们会因争论或不和吵闹而苦恼忧虑，为避免争端会妥协放弃己见。

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That is a complicated and several-staged argument that is not believable by most people in this country."

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And it's this final movement of the simile, according to this ingenious argument by Geoffrey Hartman, that Hartman calls the counter-plot.

根据哈特曼灵巧的论点看来，这就是这个比喻最后的深意，他称之为反计。

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This sentence, which by the logic of the argument should be demonstrating to us the importance of bringing bad books to justice, seems to be doing something else.

这个句子，在逻辑上来讲，论点应该是,为我们说明把不好的书审判的重要性，但现在却是其他的效果了。

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The Vatican (to use the convenient shorthand for the pope and his advisers) is unmoved by argument on either of these subjects.

ECONOMIST: Between this world and the next

The queen of studies embraces all of life, including psychology and the social sciences, but philosophers think of themselves as engaged in an intellectual discipline, characterised by argument, which, even if it settles nothing, is a splendid mental workout.

ECONOMIST: Pacifier philosophy

Therefore, the Supreme Court might as well open up and let all Americans experience the majesty of its hearings -- an experience that can be captured only by attending an argument in person or by watching an argument unfold live in one's living room or on one's laptop.

CNN: Justices, let cameras into the court