英语语法分析

Daniels is at his best when he's cool and direct, rather than combative and polemical.

丹尼尔斯冷静、坦率时表现最好，而好斗、爱辩时则不然。

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The style is more observational than polemical.

它是观察式的，不是辩论式的。

Well there's lots of very good polemical literature, but what makes it live is not the argument that it makes but the way it makes it.

有很多不错的论战文学，但是给作品生命的并非其中的雄辩，而是作品的论战方式。