" I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will scarcely controvert" .

“我有一个事实的证人，他的证词即使是你，先生，也几乎不会反驳”。

' Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion.

’没有人反驳这位先知绅士的意见。

And that women, from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot, I think, be controverted.

而女性，从她们的教育和文明生活的现状来看，处于同样的状态，我认为，这是无可争议的。

It came to Catherine with the force—or rather with the vague impressiveness—of a logical axiom which it was not in her province to controvert; and yet, though it was a scientific truth, she felt wholly unable to accept it.

它以一种逻辑公理的力量——或者更确切地说，以一种模糊的印象——来到凯瑟琳的脑海中，而在她的领域内，她无权反驳这个公理；然而，尽管这是一个科学真理，她还是觉得完全无法接受。