There was in his face that hopelessness of being understood which comes when the objector is constitutionally beyond the reach of a logic that, even under favouring conditions, is almost too coarse a vehicle for the subtlety of the argument.

他脸上流露出一种无望被人理解的神情，那是遇上了一个根本不受逻辑支配的反对者后才会有的神情，即使逻辑处于一种有利于讨论问题的情境中，在争辩一些相当微妙的问题时，也显得差强人意。