Those who are skilled (in the Tao) do not dispute (about it); the disputatious are not skilled in it.

善者不辩，辩者不善。

Langley listened with outward patience to his disputatious questionings; but he too nourished a scientific passion for doubt, and sentimental attachment for its avowal.

兰利表面上耐心地听着他争论不休的问题。 但他也培养了对怀疑的科学热情和对公开的情感依恋。

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。

I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.

我认为，我最有争议的读者会承认，她不可能指示一个不幸的男孩在全世界做任何在那种情况下更难做的事情。