It's less of an opening argument than it is something that I want to convince you of.

我不是想要说服你们，而是想要让它成为一个公开的讨论。

This statement was the opening shot in the argument.

这番话打响了争论的第一炮。

It's easier for a couple to sidestep a huge argument (s) by not opening that Pandora's box.

对夫妻而言，为了回避一场大争吵而不去打开那个潘多拉的盒子更省事一些。

You can see these opening pages of the book, dense argument being condensed in very deep ways, carry a great deal of freight.

你们可以看到书的开头前几页，密集的辩论都集结在那，且探得很深，包含很大量的材料。

Opening the magical filehandle in Perl, opens every argument passed to Perl as a filename and reads in the contents of each file line by line.

在Perl中打开神奇的文件句柄(filehandle)，这会将传送给Perl的每个参数作为文件名打开并逐行读取每个文件的内容。