高级英语love-is-fallacy中英笔记.doc

L5 Love is a fallacy 1 Charles Lamb , as merry and enterprising [Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects (有事业心的, 有进取心的, 有魄力的, 有胆量的)] a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays [a very long time], unfettered [不受约束的To set free or keep free from restrictions or bonds (to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate)] the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dreams Children. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lambs frontier, [Consider this: Metaphor, comparing the limitations set by Lamb to a frontier. (limitations vs. limits) indeed, informal may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; limp or ―flaccid [unpleasantly soft weak] or possibly spongy [elastic/flexible] are perhaps more appropriate. 查尔斯．兰姆是一个世所罕见的性情欢快、富有进取心的人，他那笔下的散文《古瓷器》和《梦中的孩子》无拘无束、自由奔放。实在令人难忘。下面这篇文章比兰姆的作品更加自由奔放。实际上，用“自由奔放”的字眼来形容这篇文章并不十分确切，或许用“柔软”、“轻松”或“轻软而富有弹性”更为恰如其分。 2 Vague though its category, it is without doubt an essay. It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion. Could Carlyle do more?Could Ruskin? 尽管很难说清这篇文章是属于哪一类，但可以肯定它是一篇散文小品文。它提出了论点。引用了许多例证，并得出了结论。卡菜尔能写得更好吗?罗斯金呢? 3 Read, then, the following essay which undertakes [attempts担任] to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic [迂腐的学究式的academic (over-concerned with correctness)] discipline[有条理], is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma[创伤]. [Consider this: Logic is not at all dry, learned branch of learning. It is like a living human being, full of beauty, passion and painful emotional shocks.] —Authors Note 这篇文章意在论证逻辑学非但不枯燥乏味而且活泼、清新、富于关感和激情，并给人以启迪。诸位不妨一读。 ——作者注4 Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute—I was all of these. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And—think of it!—I only eighteen. 我这个人头脑冷静，逻辑思维能力强。敏锐、慎重、聪慧、深刻、机智一一这些就是我的特点。我的大脑像发电机一样发达，像化学家的天平一样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。一一你知道吗?我才十八岁呀。 It is not often that one so you