The book is slightly technical, eminently readable, consistently shocking, occasionally hectoring and unapologetically polemical.

该书以“专业门槛低、读性强、时刻吸引读者兴趣、彻底颠覆药业形象、语言咄咄逼人又击中要害”而颇具特色。

But “The British Dream” is not consistently polemical.

不过，《英》这本书不是始抱着个观点。

Perhaps, he says, the gags would come easier if he were more polemical.

他说，或许，果他更好辩些，那些段子就会更容易响。

The letter was probably written for polemical impact. It is scarcely credible.

这封信能是为了起到引发争论的效果，内容并不信。

On the other hand he was boldly and ardently casting his mystical and polemical writings upon the social battlefield. From 1900 to 1910 such work absorbed the greater part of his time and energy.

另方面，他大胆而热情地将他的神秘和好战的作品投向社会战场。从 1900 年到 1910 年，这些工作占用了他大部分的时间和精力。