2024年3月11日发(作者：)

love and logic课文及翻译

Love and logic: The story of a fallacy

爱情与逻辑：谬误的故事

1 I had my first date with Polly after I made the trade with my roommate Rob. That

year every guy on campus had a leather jacket, and Rob couldn't stand the idea of

being the only football player who didn't, so he made a pact that he'd give me his

girl in exchange for my jacket. He wasn't the brightest guy. Polly wasn't too

shrewd, either.

在我和室友罗伯的交易成功之后，我和波莉有了第一次约会。那一年校园里每个人都有件

皮夹克，而罗伯是校足球队员中唯一一个没有皮夹克的，他一想到这个就受不了，于是他

和我达成了一项协议，用他的女友换取我的夹克。他可不那么聪明，而他的女友波莉也不

太精明。

2 But she was pretty, well-off, didn't dye her hair strange colors or wear too much

makeup. She had the right background to be the girlfriend of a dogged, brilliant

lawyer. If I could show the elite law firms I applied to that I had a radiant,

well-spoken counterpart by my side, I just might edge past the competition.

但她漂亮而且富有，也没有把头发染成奇怪的颜色或是化很浓的妆。她拥有合适的家庭背

景，足以胜任一名坚忍而睿智的律师的女友。如果我能够让我所申请的顶尖律师事务所看

到我身边伴随着一位光彩照人、谈吐优雅的另一半，我就很有可能在竞聘中以微弱优势获

胜。

3 "Radiant" she was already. I could dispense her enough pearls of wisdom to

make her "well-spoken".

“光彩照人”，她已经是了。而我也能施予她足够多的“智慧之珠”，让她变得“谈吐优雅”。

4 After a banner day out, I drove until we were situated under a big old oak tree

on a hill off the expressway. What I had in mind was a little eccentric. I thought the

venue with a perfect view of the luminous city would lighten the mood. We stayed

in the car, and I turned down the stereo and took my foot off the brake pedal.

"What are we going to talk about?" she asked.

在一起外出度过了美好的一天之后，我驱车来到了高速公路旁一座小山上一棵古老的大橡

树下。我的想法有些怪异。而这个地方能够俯瞰灯火灿烂的城区，我觉得它会使人的心情

变轻松。我们呆在车子里，我调低了音响并把脚从刹车上挪开。“我们要谈些什么？”她问

道。

5 "Logic."

“逻辑学。”

6 "Cool," she said over her gum.

“好酷啊，”她一边嚼着口香糖一边说。

7 "The doctrine of logic," I said, "is a staple of clear thinking. Failures in logic

distort the truth, and some of them are well known. First let's look at the fallacy

Dicto Simpliciter."

“逻辑学的原理，”我说道，“即清晰思考的主要原则。逻辑上出现的问题会歪曲事实，其中

有些还很普遍。我们先来看看一种叫做‘绝对判断’的逻辑谬误。”