40 \
41 \object that my father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.
42 \repeated fifteen or twenty times. 43 \
44 \ 45 \
46 \ 47 \
48 He flung the coat from him. \
49 I shrugged. \
50 I sat down in a chair and pretended to read a book, but out of the corner of my eye I kept watching Petey. He was a torn man. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Then he turned away and set his jaw resolutely. Then he looked back at the coat, with even more longing in his face. Then he turned away, but with not so much resolution this time. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning . Finally he didn't turn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.
51 \ 52 \
53 \ 54 \
55 \ 56 \
57 He complied. The coat bunched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops. He looked like a mound of dead raccoons. \
58 I rose from my chair. \ 59 He swallowed. \
60 I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the nature of a survey; I wanted to find out just how much work I had to do to get her mind up to the standard I required. I took her first to dinner. \（=delicious） dinner,\movie,\she bade me good night.
61 I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task. This girl's lack of information was terrifying. Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information First she had to be taught to think. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. But then I got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about the way she entered a room and the way she handled a knife and fork, and I decided to make an effort.
62 I went about it, as in all things, systematically. I gave her a course in logic. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my finger tips. \date, \
63 \ “s
64 We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. \
65 \
66 She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. \
67 \recognize the common fallacies of logic. These we will take up tonight.\ 68 \
69 I winced, but went bravely on. \ 70 \
71, \Therefore everybody should exercise.\
72 \
73 \have heart disease, exercise is bad, not good. Many people are ordered by their doctors not to exercise. You must qualify the generalization. You must say exercise is usually good, or exercise is good for most people. Otherwise you have committed a DictoSimplioiter. Do you see?\
74 \
75 \fallacy called Hasty Generalization. Listen carefully: You can't speak French. I can't speak French. Petey Burch can't speak French. I must therefore conclude that nobody at the University of Minnesota can speak French.\ 76 \
77 I hid my exasperation. \support such a conclusion.\
78 \
79 I fought off a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere with this girl absolutely nowhere. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. I continued.
80 \ 81 \time we take her on a picnic--\
82 \guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.\
83 \ 84 I sighed deeply. \ 85 \ 86 \ 87 \
88 I frowned, but plunged ahead. \stone so heavy that He won't be able to lift it?\ 89 \
90 \
91 \ 92 \
93 She scratched her pretty, empty head. \
94 \there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. Get it?\
95 \
96 I cousulted my watch. \learned. We'll have another session tomorrow night.\
97 I deposited her at the girls' dormitory, where she assured me that she had had a perfectly terrif evening, and I went glumly to my room. Petey lay snoring in his bed, the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. For a moment I considered waking him and telling him that he could have his girl back. It seemed clear that my project was doomed to failure. The girl simply had a logic-proof head.
98 But then I reconsidered. I had wasted one evening: I might as well waste another. Who knew? Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. Admittedly it was not a prospect fraught with hope, but I decided to give it one more try.
99 Seated under the oak the next evening I said, \ 100 She quivered with delight.
101 \he has a wife and six children at home, the wife is a helpless cripple, the children have nothing to eat, no clothes to wear, no shoes on their feet, there are no beds in the house, no coal in the cellar, and winter is coming.\ 102 A tear rolled down each of Polly's pink cheeks. \
103 \qualifications. Instead he appealed to the boss's sympathy. He committed the fallacy of Ad Misericordiam. Do you understand?\
104 \
105 I handed her a handkerchief and tried to keep from screaming while she wiped her eyes. \controlled tone, \during examinations. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs to guide them during a trial, carpenters have blueprints to guide them when they are building a house. Why, then, shouldn't students be allowed to look at their textbooks during an examination?\
106 \
107 \much they have learned, but students are. The situations are altogether different, and you can't make an analogy between them.\
108 \
109 \ 110 \
111 \沥青油矿), the world today would not know about radium .\
112 \is so dreamy. I mean he fractures me.\
113 \Maybe Madame Curie would have discovered radium at some later date. Maybe somebody else would have discovered it. Maybe any number of things would have happened. You can't start with a hypothesis that is not true and then draw any supportable conclusions from it.\
114 \
115 One more chance, I decided. But just one more. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. \called Poisoning the Well.\ 116 \
117 \‘My opponent is a notorious liar. You can't believe a word that he is going to say. '... Now, Polly, think. Think hard. What's wrong?\
118 I watched her closely as she knit her creamy brow in concentration. Suddenly, a g1immer of intelligence—the first I had seen--came into her eyes. \if the first man calls him a liar before he even begins talking?\
119 \anybody could drink from it. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. ? Polly, I’m proud of you.\ 120 \
121 \—evaluate. Come now, let's review everything we have learned.”
122 \
123 Heartened by the knowledge that Polly was not altogether a cretin , I began a long, patient review of all I had told her. Over and over and over again I cited instances pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let-up. It was like digging a tunnel. At first everything was work, sweat, and darkness. I had no idea when I would reach the light, or even if I would. But I persisted. I pounded and clawed and scraped, and finally I was rewarded. I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright.
124 Five grueling nights this took, but it was worth it. I had made a logician out of Polly; I had taught her to think. My job was done. She was worthy of me at last. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many mansions, a suitable mother for my well-heeled children.
125 It must not be thought that I was without love for this girl. Quite the contrary, Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, so I loved mine. I determined to acquaint her with my feeling at our very next meeting. The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic.
126 \ 127 \
128 \“we have now spent five evenings together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched.” 129 “Hasty Generalization,” said Polly brightly. 130 “I beg your pardon,” said I.
131 “Hasty Generalization,” she repeated. “How can you say that we are well matched on the basis of only five dates?” 132 I chuckled with amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons well. \tolerant manner, \ 133 \”, said Polly promptly. \”
134 I chuckled with somewhat less amusement. The dear child had learned her lessons perhaps too well. I decided to change tactics. Obviously the best approach was a simple, strong, direct declaration of love. I paused for a moment while my massive brain chose the proper words. Then I began:
135 \Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish (vi.憔悴). I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling (摇摇晃晃地走), hollow-eyed hulk.\ 136 There, I thought, folding my arms, that ought to do it. 137 \” Said Polly.
138 I ground my teeth. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. Frantically I fought back the tide of panic surging through me. At all costs I had to keep cool. 139 \ 140 \’re darn right,\
141 \ 142 \
143 \about fallacies.\
144 \
145 I dashed perspiration from my brow. \classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don't have anything to do with life.\ 146 \
147 That did it. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. \ 148 \ 149 \
150 \
151 I reeled back, overcome with the infamy of it. After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! \rat! I shrieked, kicking up great chunks of turf . \ 152 \
153 With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. \logically. How could you choose Petey Burch over me? Look at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who'll never know where his next meal is coming from. Can you give me one logical reason why you should go stead with Petey Burch?\ 154 \” (from Rhetoric in a Modern Modeby James K. Bell and Adrian A. Cohn)
课文5译文爱情就是谬误马克斯?舒尔曼
1．查尔斯.兰姆是个世所罕见的性情欢快、富有进取心的人，他笔下的散文《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。事实上，用“自由奔放”的字眼来形容这篇文章并不十分贴切，或许用“柔软”、“轻松”或“轻软而富有弹性”更为恰当。
2．尽管很难说清这篇文章属于哪一类，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。卡里尔能写得更好吗?拉斯金呢?
3．这篇文章意在论证逻辑学非但不枯燥乏味，而且活泼、清新，富于美感和激情，并给人以启迪。诸位不妨一读。 ---作者注
4．我这个人头脑冷静，逻辑思维能力强。敏锐、慎重、深刻、机智----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。---你知道吗?我才18岁。
5．年纪这么轻而智力又如此非凡的人并不常有。就拿在明尼苏达大学和我同住一个房间的皮蒂.伯奇来说吧，他和我年龄相仿，经历一样，可他笨得像头驴。小伙子长得年轻漂亮，可惜脑子里却空空如也。他易于激动，情绪反复无常，容易受别人的影响。最糟糕的是他爱赶时髦。在我看来，赶时髦就是最缺乏理智的表现。见到一种新鲜的东西就跟着学，以为别人都在这么干，自己也就卷进去傻干---我认为这简直是愚蠢至极，但皮蒂却不以为然。
6．一天下午，我看见皮蒂躺在床上，脸上露出一副痛苦不堪的表情，我立刻断定他是得了阑尾炎。“别动，”我说，“别吃泻药，我就请医生来。” 7．“浣熊．”他咕哝着。 8．“浣熊?”我停下来问道。
9．“我要一件浣熊皮大衣，”他痛苦地哭叫着。
10．我明白了，他不是身体不舒服，而是精神上的问题。“你为什么要浣熊皮大衣?”
11．“我早该知道，”他哭叫着，用拳头捶打着太阳穴，“我早该知道查尔斯登舞再度流行时．浣熊皮大衣也会时兴起来的。我真傻，钱都买了课本，弄得现在不能买浣熊皮大衣了。”