As Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz discuss in their book The Zodiac of Paris (which I have reviewed, here), it arrived in France to a stormy debate over its meaning and origins.

当杰德·布赫瓦尔德和黛安·格雷科·Josefowicz在他们的《巴黎的星座》（我的评论，猛击这里）一书中提到，在运到法国的时候引起了一场关于它的意义和起源的激烈争论。

There was a stormy debate over the correct retiring age for each class of animal.

为各类动物确定退休年龄，他们也要激烈争论一番。