That was a condition of the loans, in order that an adverse opinion should not affect a fiddle's market value.

这里有前提保障，以确保不利的观点不会影响小提琴的市值。

In his scientific judgments he showed, even then, a remarkable temperance, a precocious openness to the opposite view; but in literature he was a furious propagandist, aggressive, disputatious, and extremely sensitive to adverse opinion.

在他的科学判断中，即使在那时，他也表现出非凡的节制，对相反观点的早熟开放。但在文学方面，他是一个狂热的宣传家，咄咄逼人，好争辩，对反对意见极其敏感。