Section A Translate the underlined sentences in
the following passage into Chinese. Remember to write the answers on the answer
sheet.
It is astonishing how little is known about the working of the
mind. But however little or much is known, it is fairly clear that the model of
the logic-machine is not only wrong but mischievous. There are people who
profess to believe that man can live by logic alone. If only they say, men
developed their reason, looked at all situations and dilemmas logically, and
proceeded to devise rational solutions, all human problems would be solved. Be
reasonable. Think logically. Act rationally. This line of thought is very
persuasive, not to say seductive. (81) It is astonishing, however, how
frequently the people most fanatically devoted to logic and reason, to a cold
review of the "facts" and a calculated construction of the truth, turn out not
only to be terribly emotional in argumentation, but obstinate any " truth" is "
proved"--deeply committed to emotional positions that prove rock--resistible
to the most massive accumulation of unsympathetic facts and proofs.
(82) If man’s mind cannot be turned into a logic-machine, neither can
it function properly as a great emotional sponge, to be squeezed at will.
All of us have known people who gush as a general response to life--who gush in
seeing a sunset, who gush in reading a book, who gush in meeting a friend. They
may seem to live by emotion alone, but their constant gushing is a disguise for
absence of genuine feeling, a torrent rushing to fill a vacuum. It is not
uncommon to find beneath the gush a cold, analytic mind that is astonishing in
its meticulousness and ruthless in its calculation. Somewhere
between machine and sponge lies the reality of the mind--a blend of reason and
emotion, of actuality and imagination, of fact and feeling. (83) The
entanglement is so complete, the mixture so thoroughly mixed, that it is
probably impossible to achieve pure reason or pure emotion, at least for any
sustained period of time. (84) It is probably best to
assume that all our reasoning is fused with our emotional commitments and
beliefs, all our thoughts colored by feelings that lie deep within our
psyches. Moreover, it is probably best to assume that this stream of emotion
is not a poison, not even a taint, but is a positive life-source, a stream
of psychic energy that animates and vitalizes our entire thought process. (85)
The roots of reason are embedded in feelings--feelings that have formed and
accumulated and developed over a lifetime of personality-shaping. These
feelings are not for occasional using but are inescapable. To know what we
think, we must know how we feel. It is feeling that shapes belief and forms
opinion. It is feeling that directs the strategy of argument. It is our
feelings, then, with which we must come to honorable terms.