Love Is a Fallacy 正式(学生的问题)
爱情是个谬误(Love is a fallacy)
我是那种很酷而且很有头脑的人。
深谋远虑、独具慧眼----把这些都加到我身上一点不过分。
我的大脑像化学家的天平一样精确，像手术刀一样锐利。
我只有18岁。
这么年轻就有这么发达的大脑可不是一件常见的事。
比如说，和我同在明尼苏达大学的室友皮特·巴特就笨如蠢驴。
他是那种好小伙子，但仅此而已。
他是那种感情用事，喜怒无常，没有主见的家伙，更糟的是，他狂热地赶时髦。
我认为时髦最不值一提的东西。
投身于每一次如潮水般涌来的狂热，没有别的原因，只是因为别人都这样盲目地随波逐流对我来说是极其癫狂的。
一天下午，我发现巴特躺在床上，表情极其痛苦，“熊皮。
”他还口齿不清地嘟囔着。
“熊皮？”我有些诧异。
“我要一件熊皮大衣。
”他哀号着说。
我这才明白他并不是有病：“你为什么要熊皮大衣”“我早应该想到熊皮大衣会再次流行，”他大叫起来，“哎，我真笨，我把钱全花在了课本上，现在我买不起熊皮大衣了。
”“你是说现在又流行熊皮大衣了”我有些疑惑。
“学校里的那帮大虫都穿熊皮大衣。
你近来都去哪儿了”“图书馆。
”我说。
自然，那帮大虫是很少去图书馆的。
他从床上一跃而起，“我一定要搞到一件熊皮大衣！“他神情激动地说。
“巴特，理智点儿。
熊皮大衣有碍健康，它会脱毛，而且散发臭味，再说穿起来也太沉。
况且它也不好看。
它还----”“你不懂，”他不耐烦地打断我，“这正是它的魅力所在。
难道你不想赶时髦吗”“不想。
”我承认。
“但是，我想，”他说，“我愿为得到一件熊皮大衣付出一切，一切。
”我的脑袋，这台精密仪器，顿时高速转了起来。
“一切”我死死地盯着他问。
我托着下巴深思起来。
太巧了，我知道在哪里可以搞到一件熊皮大衣。
我父亲上大学的时候就有一件，更巧的是，巴特有我所想要的东西。
确切地说，他至少有优先权。
我是指他的女朋友，普莉·艾斯碧。
我对普莉·艾斯碧垂涎已久。
必须说明的是，我对她的爱慕绝不是朝三暮四的。
她确实是那种很有魅力的姑娘，但是我可不那种让理智被感情玩弄的人。
love is a falacy详解
hollow-eyed: ad. having deep-set eyes or dark areas under the eyes, as from sickness, mental suffering or fatigue hulk: n. a heavy, awkward person 笨重的东西/人； 庞然大物 say that you will go steady with me: Promise to be my sweetheart. Promise to go out with me only and no other. I will wander…hulk: Hyperbole. Worn, wearied and dragging my feet, I’ll roam disconsolately all over the world like a hollow-eyed wreck.
The dear child…lessons well: This selfconceited and arrogant freshman adopts a very patronizing attitude towards Polly. This dear little girl has learnt very well what I taught her. patting…manner: His patronizing not only in speech and tone but also in action. He patted her hand in such a way as to show that he was trying to put up with something he did not especially like.
Quiz of L4 Love is a Fallacy(ADE-II)
ADE II Lesson 4 Love Is a FallacyExercise OneDirections : Choose the closest explanation out of the given items A.B.C.D. according to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.1. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.A. energetic; a long time; set…freeB. popular; holidays; improvedC. exciting; a long time; effectedD. major; holidays; restricted2. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.A. resetsB. is full of dangerC. revisesD. braves the danger of3. Indeed, ―informal‖may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; ―limp‖or ―flaccid‖ or possibly ―spongy‖ are perhaps more appropriate.A. with no energy; sluggishB. soft; flexibleC. flexible; firmD. strong; stout4. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from beinga dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.A. learned; burnB. intelligent; harmC. bookish; emotional woundD. trained; bruise5. Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute---I was all of these.A. clever; slow; generousB. playful; hot-tempered; strong-mindedC. cynical; quick; slyD. clear-sighted; sensitive; shrewd6. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it---this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness.A. fad; stupidity; summitB. favor; foolishness; extremeC. clamor; sense; factD. trend; folly; chase7. ―Can you mean.‖I said incredulously, ―that people are actually wearing raccoon coat again?‖A. earnestlyB. with disbeliefC. expresslyD. positively8. ―Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weight too much. They’re unsightly. They---‖A. dirtyB. furryC. filthyD. smelly9. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ―Anything?‖ I asked, looking at him narrowly.A. with great interestB. attentivelyC. closelyD. sharply10. I had long coveted Polly Espy.A. have a blameworthy desire forB. admired wholeheartedlyC. eagerly favoredD. practically helped11. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.A. dully; emotionalB. intelligently; rationalC. cleverly; clearlyD. singularly; full12. At table her manners were exquisite.A. marvelousB. favoredC. delicateD. standard13. Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.A. swirledB. ranC. slantedD. turned14. I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that my father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.A. monstrousB. ill-smellingC. marvelousD. smart15. ―Y our girl,‖ I said, mincing no words.A. saying directlyB. saying politelyC. saying loudlyD. saying mildly16. ―It’s just been a casual kick---just a few laughs, that’s all.‖A. It has been a steady friendshipB. It has been the occasional pleasureC. It has been a close relationshipD. It has been a plain relationship17. He complied. The coat bunched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops.A. followedB. resistedC. claimedD. agreed18. We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly.A. the place for lovers to meet in agreementB. the party for people to have a chat while drinkingC. the site for a social danceD. a park for rest19. I winced, but went bravely on.A. felt a bit sacredB. felt terrifiedC. felt uncertainD. felt distressed20. I hid my exasperation.A. excitementB. admirationC. timidnessD. annoyance21. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere.A. I appreciated this girl so muchB. I had no way to get any progress with this girlC. I had no way to explain myself to this girlD. I hated this girl for she was a nut.22. ―Y es, Let’s,‖ she chirped, blinking her eyes happily.A. voiced in a high-pitched soundB. reacted happily as a birdC. made noisy utterance like a birdD. cleared her throat in a loud voice23 I went glumly to my room.A. with great angerB. with sorrowC. in delightD. gloomy24. ―Did you see the movie? Oh, it just knocked me out. That Walter Pidgeon is so dreamy. I mean he fractures me.‖A. made me dizzy; perfect; depressed meB. drew all my attention; excellent; stunned meC. greatly moved by; wonderful; filled me with admirationD. lured me to tear; poor; made me disappointed25. My opponent is a notorious liarA. terribleB. infamousC. habitualD. poor26. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. …A. destroyedB. spread rumor ofC. decriedD. condemned27. Over and over and over again I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let–up.A. kept stressing and emphasizing without any relaxationB. kept repeating without stopC. kept claiming that fallacies were very difficult to understandD. kept giving examples one after another28. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many mamsions, a suitable mother for my well-heeled children.A. household work; cleverB. lawyer tasks; well-educatedC. large and stately houses; richD. friends; lovely29. ―Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellation of outer space.A. groups of starsB. starsC. mysterious galaxyD. goddessesExercise 2Directions: Write out the original word or phrase according to the underlined part in each of the following sentence. Write your answer on your Answer Sheet.1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but empty-headed.2. Worst of all, a man crazy in a fashion.3. Fads, I consider, are the very negation of reason.4. ―Raccoon,‖ he mumbled indistinctly.5. It so happened that I knew where to do something helpful for a raccoon coat.6. Beautiful she was. She was not yet of those pretty girls who have their large photos pinned on the as models.7. but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She had the good foundations for a perfect wife of me.8. But I believed that under my guidance she would become intelligent.9. ―Do you,‖ I asked, ―have any kind of promise being engaged with her? I mean are you going stead y or anything like that?‖10. ―Nothing, nothing,‖ I said calmly, and took my suitcase out of the closet.11. ―Holy Toledo!‖ said Petey with great respect.12. Then a cautious and alert look came into his eyes. ―What do you want for it?‖13. I went back to my room with depression.14. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts readily available.15. We’ll have another time for fallacies tomorrow night.‖Exercise 3Directions : Paraphrase the following sentences and, if necassary, give a brief account of their contextual meaning.1. Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute---I was all of these. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.2. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.3. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding.4. He was a torn man.5. I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the nature of a survey;6. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task.7. Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information.8. and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. 9. It must not be thought that I was without love for this girl. 10. With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice.Exercise 4Directions: Identify the rhetorical methods used in each of the following sentences. Write down its appellation and its suggestive meaning on your Answer Sheet.1. It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion. Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin?2. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating asa scalpel. And---think of it! ---I was only eighteen.3. Take, for example, Petey Burch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.4. ―Raccoon?‖ I said, pausing in my flight.5. ―Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smellbad. They weight too much. They’re unsightly. They---‖6. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ―Anything?‖ I asked, looking at him narrowly.7. He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face. :Holy Toledo!‖ he repeated fifteen or twenty times.8. ―Polly?‖ he said in a horrified whisper. ―Y ou want Polly?‖9. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window.10. 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.11. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning, Finally he didn’tturn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.12. She scratched her pretty, empty head. ―I’m all confused,‖ she admitted.13. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force.14. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.15. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation.16. 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.17. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.18. It was like digging a tunnel. At first everything was work, sweat, and darkness. I had noidea 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.19. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, so I loved mine.20. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein，and my monster had me by the throat.21. I learped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.22. Look at Petey---a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from.Exercise 5Directions: Answer the following questions according to what you have learned in Lesson Three. Give a brief account about the style and language characters according to the questions.1. Tell briefly the story and air your own view about the love or ―love‖ between the threeuniversity students.2. Tell the style characteristic and the tone the author employed in the narration of the story.ADE II Lesson 4 Love Is a FallacyExercise OneDirections : Choose the closest explanation out of the given items A.B.C.D. according to the underlined part in each of the following sentences.1. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.A. energetic; a long time; set…freeB. popular; holidays; improvedC. exciting; a long time; effectedD. major; holidays; restricted2. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.A. resetsB. is full of dangerC. revisesD. braves the danger of3. Indeed, ―informal‖may not be quite the right word to describe this essay; ―limp‖or ―flaccid‖ or possibly ―spongy‖ are perhaps more appropriate.A. with no energy; sluggishB. soft; flexibleC. flexible; firmD. strong; stout4. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from beinga dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. A. learned; burn B. intelligent; harmC. bookish; emotional woundD. trained; bruise5. Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute---I was all of these.A. clever; slow; generousB. playful; hot-tempered; strong-mindedC. cynical; quick; slyD. clear-sighted; sensitive; shrewd6. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it---this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness.A. fad; stupidity; summitB. favor; foolishness; extremeC. clamor; sense; factD. trend; folly; chase8. ―Can you mean.‖I said incredulously, ―that people are actually wearing raccoon coat again?‖A. earnestlyB. with disbeliefC. expresslyD. positively9. ―Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smell bad. They weight too much. They’re unsightly. They---‖A. dirtyB. furryC. filthyD. smelly10. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ―Anything?‖ I asked, looking at him narrowly.A. with great interestB. attentivelyC. closelyD. sharply11. I had long coveted Polly Espy.A. have a blameworthy desire forB. admired wholeheartedlyC. eagerly favoredD. practically helped12. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason.A. dully; emotionalB. intelligently; rationalC. cleverly; clearlyD. singularly; full13. At table her manners were exquisite.A. marvelousB. favoredC. delicateD. standard14. Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.A. swirledB. ranC. slantedD. turned15. I threw open the suitcase and revealed the huge, hairy, gamy object that my father had worn in his Stutz Bearcat in 1925.A. monstrousB. ill-smellingC. marvelousD. smart16. ―Y our girl,‖ I said, mincing no words.A. saying directlyB. saying politelyC. saying loudlyD. saying mildly17. ―It’s just been a casual kick---just a few laughs, that’s all.‖A. It has been a steady friendshipB. It has been the occasional pleasureC. It has been a close relationshipD. It has been a plain relationship18. He complied. The coat bunched high over his ears and dropped all the way down to his shoe tops.A. followedB. resistedC. claimedD. agreed19. We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly.A. the place for lovers to meet in agreementB. the party for people to have a chat while drinkingC. the site for a social danceD. a park for rest20. I winced, but went bravely on.A. felt a bit sacredB. felt terrifiedC. felt uncertainD. felt distressed21. I hid my exasperation.A. excitementB. admirationC. timidnessD. annoyance22. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere.A. I appreciated this girl so muchB. I had no way to get any progress with this girlC. I had no way to explain myself to this girlD. I hated this girl for she was a nut.23. ―Y es, Let’s,‖ she chirped, blinking her eyes happily.A. voiced in a high-pitched soundB. reacted happily as a birdC. made noisy utterance like a birdD. cleared her throat in a loud voice24. I went glumly to my room.A. with great angerB. with sorrowC. in delightD. gloomy25. ―Did you see the movie? Oh, it just knocked me out. That Walter Pidgeon is so dreamy. I mean he fractures me.‖A. made me dizzy; perfect; depressed meB. drew all my attention; excellent; stunned meC. greatly moved by; wonderful; filled me with admirationD. lured me to tear; poor; made me disappointed26. My opponent is a notorious liarA. terribleB. infamousC. habitualD. poor27. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. …A. destroyedB. spread rumor ofC. decriedD. condemned28. Over and over and over again I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let–up.A. kept stressing and emphasizing without any relaxationB. kept repeating without stopC. kept claiming that fallacies were very difficult to understandD. kept giving examples one after another29. She was a fit wife for me, a proper hostess for my many mamsions, a suitable mother for my well-heeled children.A. household work; cleverB. lawyer tasks; well-educatedC. large and stately houses; richD. friends; lovely30. ―Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellation of outer space.A. groups of starsB. starsC. mysterious galaxyD. goddessesExercise 2Directions: Write out the original word or phrase according to the underlined part in each of the following sentence. Write your answer on your Answer Sheet.1. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but empty-headed. (but nothing upstairs)2. Worst of all, a man crazy in a fashion. (faddist)3. Fads, I consider, are the very negation of reason. (submit)4. ―Raccoon,‖ he mumbled indistinctly. (thickly)5. It so happened that I knew where to do something helpful for a raccoon coat. (to get my hands on)6. Beautiful she was. She was not yet of those pretty girls who have their large photos pinned on the as models. (pin-up proportions)7. but I felt sure that time would supply the lack. She had the good foundations for a perfect wife of me. (She already had the makings.)8. But I believed that under my guidance she would become intelligent. (smarten up)9. ―Do you,‖ I asked, ―have any kind of promise being engaged with her? I mean are you going steady or anything like that?‖(formal arrangement with her?)10. ―Nothing, nothing,‖ I said calmly, and took my suitcase out of the closet. (innocently)11. ―Holy Toledo!‖ said Petey with great respect. (reverently)12. Then a cautious and alert look came into his eyes. ―What do you want for it?‖ (canny)13. I went back to my room with depression. (with a heavy heart)14. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts readily available. (at my finger tips)15. We’ll have another time for fallacies tomorrow night.‖(another session)Exercise 3Directions : Paraphrase the following sentences and, if necassary, give a brief account of their contextual meaning.1. Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute---I was all ofthese. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (I was also keen, crafty, clear-sighted, sensitive, and shrewd. Dobie boasts to show he was a distinguish young man from others, especially his roommate Petey.)2. I wanted Polly for a shrewdly calculated, entirely cerebral reason. (The reason I wanted Polly is completely practical and rational, having nothing to do with emotion. It was in accordance with what he declared about himself.)3. She had an erectness of carriage, an ease of bearing, a poise that clearly indicated the best of breeding. (she walked with her head and body erect and moved in a natural and dignified manner—all these show that she received a good family education and had a fair social behavior.)4. He was a torn man. (Petey was a man agitated and tortured by hesitation, never knew what was the right thing to do.)5. I had my first date with Polly the following evening. This was in the nature of a survey; ( The first date was not emotional but rational, only to see whether Polley fitted him or not. )6. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task. (I found I had to do a lot of work for Polley to become an intelligent girl. She had much less knowledge than he expected.)7. Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information. (What I would do for Polley was not only to tell her some information.)8. and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey. (I intended to give Pettey back to Petey, for he thought that Polley was not suitable as his future wife. Dobie totally regarded Polly a thing, an exchanged piece for the recoon coat. He never knew what love was for, though he boasted himself as a clever man.)9. It must not be thought that I was without love for this girl. (If you thought I did not love Polley you were wrong. When he saw his endeavor realized Dobie, a dissembler, had eaten up his original words. )10. With an immense effort of will, I modulated my voice. (I adjusted my voice with all my efforts. Dobie was irritated, for Polley, the quick learner, refuted him tit for tat. )Exercise 4Directions: Identify the rhetorical methods used in each of the following sentences. Write down its appellation and its suggestive meaning on your Answer Sheet.1. It develops an argument; it cites instances; it reaches a conclusion. Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin? (Rhetorical question)2. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating asa scalpel. And---think of it! ---I was only eighteen. (Simile)3. Take, for example, Petey Burch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (Simile)4. ―Raccoon?‖ I said, pausing in my flight. (hyperbole)5. ―Petey, why? Look at it rationally. Raccoon coats are unsanitary. They shed. They smellbad. They weight too much. They’re unsightly. They---‖(parallelism)6. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ―Anything?‖ I asked, looking at him narrowly. (Metaphor)7. He plunged his hands into the raccoon coat and then his face. :Holy Toledo!‖ he repeated fifteen or twenty times. (Hyperbole)8. ―Polly?‖ he said in a horrified whisper. ―Y ou want Polly?‖(Transferred epithet)9. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. (Metaphor)10. 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. (parelleism)11. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning, Finally he didn’tturn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. (Antithesis)12. She scratched her pretty, empty head. ―I’m all confused,‖ she admitted. (pun)13. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (Antithesis)14. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.15. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation. (Metonymy)16. 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. (Parallelism)17. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Synecdoche)18. 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. (Analogy)19. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, so I loved mine. (Simile)20. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein，and my monster had me by the throat. (Metaphor)21. I learped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (Simile)22. Look at Petey---a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from. (Metaphor)Exercise 5Directions: Answer the following questions according to what you have learned in Lesson Three. Give a brief account about the style and language characters according to the questions.1. Tell briefly the story and air your own view about the love or ―love‖ between the threeuniversity students.Dobie, a self-conceited university student, thought that Pe tey’s girl friend, Polly, is a ‖beautiful but dumb girl‖, and with his re-education she would be his suitable wife of a future lawyer. He made a deal with Petey by giving him a raccoon coat and let him retreat from the ―field‖. He began his closed-knitted plan by teaching Polly logical lessons in order to improve her intelligence. He cherishes a hope like Pygmalion who paid labor and was rewarded with a full satisfaction. The end of his arduousness, however, is a backfire that the girl fights back him with what he taught her. The only reason is that her boyfriend Petey has a raccoon coat while he doesn’t.Dobie’s ―love‖ is, instead of romantic, so rational and practical. When so much logic is put into love it is doomed to be a failure, for love is a fallacy.2. Tell the style characteristic and the tone the author employed in the narration of the story.As a short story, the text has the following characteristics:1) use of rhetorical devices, 2) racy dialogues full of American colloquialism and slang, 3) ultra learned terms used by the conceited narrator and the infra clipped vulgar forms, 4) the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes to increase the speed of the narration.。
love is a fallacy 爱情是谬误
在进入今天主题，讲述我和小美的故事之前我想先给大家推荐这样的一片文章，其实正是因为我自己的经历我才深深的懂得了这篇文章的内在，而我希望将它跟大家分享，如果你在爱情里面遇到类似的问题，那么我相信这篇文章会给你一点启示的，当然同时，你也可以提升自己的英文。
Love Is a Fallacy《爱情是个谬误》这是一篇我非常喜欢的文章，这也是在大学里我教授的三年级外语专业学生高级英语课本里面的一篇经典文章，国外的大学生也会同步在写作课学习这篇文章。
以前我喜欢它只是单纯把它当做一篇幽默的文章来对待，其实也没有深深的去体会过其中滋味，但是现在我才真正体会到为什么爱情是一个谬误。
主人公是一个非常自信甚至很自负的法学院大一男生Dobbie,他自认为又帅，又有才，他看上了自己室友的女友，很想得到那个女生，但是这个女生Polly 只是一个表面很漂亮但却很没有脑子的女生，所以Dobbie决定要先改变这个女孩，把她变聪明之后再得到她。
当然第一步是得先得到室友的同意。
室友是一个拜金狂，依然没有脑子，于是Dobbie用一件浣熊大衣作为交换条件就轻松得到了室友的许可，于是就和Polly开始约会了。
约会的内容就是教不同的逻辑谬误给Polly，为的就是让她变聪明，因为主人公认为逻辑是让人变聪明的法宝，于是约会就这么开始了，他教授的逻辑问题如下：1. 绝对判断（Dicto Simpliciter）的谬误。
例子如下：“运动是非常有益的，它能增强体质，所以每个人都应该做运动!”，这个论断是明显错误的，因为运动有益是一种无条件的前提。
比方说，假设你得了心脏病，运动不但无益，反而有害，有不少人医生就不准他们运动。
你必须给这种前提加以限制。
你应该说，一般来说运动是有益的。
或者说，对大多数人是有益的。
否则就是犯了绝对判断的错误2. 草率结论（Hasty Generalization）的谬误。
例子如下：“你不会讲法语，我不会讲法语，皮蒂也不会讲法语。
love-is-a-fallacy-爱情是谬误培训讲学
在进入今天主题，讲述我和小美的故事之前我想先给大家推荐这样的一片文章，其实正是因为我自己的经历我才深深的懂得了这篇文章的内在，而我希望将它跟大家分享，如果你在爱情里面遇到类似的问题，那么我相信这篇文章会给你一点启示的，当然同时，你也可以提升自己的英文。
Love Is a Fallacy《爱情是个谬误》这是一篇我非常喜欢的文章，这也是在大学里我教授的三年级外语专业学生高级英语课本里面的一篇经典文章，国外的大学生也会同步在写作课学习这篇文章。
以前我喜欢它只是单纯把它当做一篇幽默的文章来对待，其实也没有深深的去体会过其中滋味，但是现在我才真正体会到为什么爱情是一个谬误。
主人公是一个非常自信甚至很自负的法学院大一男生Dobbie,他自认为又帅，又有才，他看上了自己室友的女友，很想得到那个女生，但是这个女生Polly 只是一个表面很漂亮但却很没有脑子的女生，所以Dobbie决定要先改变这个女孩，把她变聪明之后再得到她。
当然第一步是得先得到室友的同意。
室友是一个拜金狂，依然没有脑子，于是Dobbie用一件浣熊大衣作为交换条件就轻松得到了室友的许可，于是就和Polly开始约会了。
约会的内容就是教不同的逻辑谬误给Polly，为的就是让她变聪明，因为主人公认为逻辑是让人变聪明的法宝，于是约会就这么开始了，他教授的逻辑问题如下：1. 绝对判断（Dicto Simpliciter）的谬误。
例子如下：“运动是非常有益的，它能增强体质，所以每个人都应该做运动!”，这个论断是明显错误的，因为运动有益是一种无条件的前提。
比方说，假设你得了心脏病，运动不但无益，反而有害，有不少人医生就不准他们运动。
你必须给这种前提加以限制。
你应该说，一般来说运动是有益的。
或者说，对大多数人是有益的。
否则就是犯了绝对判断的错误2. 草率结论（Hasty Generalization）的谬误。
例子如下：“你不会讲法语，我不会讲法语，皮蒂也不会讲法语。
(完整word版)高级英语第二册第五单元love is a fallacy课文翻译
第五单元课文翻译爱情就是谬误马克斯·舒尔曼1）．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）．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。
卡莱尔能写得更好吗? 罗斯金呢?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o——作者注1．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——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?我才十八岁呀。
2．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跟我同住一个房间的皮蒂·伯奇来说吧，他跟我年龄相仿，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。
最糟的是他爱赶时髦。
我认为，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，以为别人都在那么干，自己也就卷进去傻干——这在我看来，简直愚蠢至极，但皮蒂却不以为然。
3．一天下午，我看见皮蒂躺在床上，脸上显露出一种痛苦不堪的表情，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。
”4．“浣熊，”他咕哝着说。
5．“浣熊?”我停下来问道。
6．“我要一件浣熊皮大衣，”他痛苦地哭叫着。
7．我明白了，他不是身体不舒服，而是精神上不太正常。
“你为什么要浣熊皮大衣?”8．“我本早该知道，”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，可现在不能买浣熊皮大衣了。
Love Is a Fallacy 正式(学生的问题)
/v_show/id_XMzI4OTIxNDQ=.html（这是6-59段的performance，可作参考）If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be?Love is ___________________. 每位学生想出一个词。
上课提问。
Practicing (Appreciation of logic fallacies)In this story, there are many logical terms and examples about these terms which are given by the narrator in correspondence. You have previewed the story. Can you list all of them?Analyze the following fallacies with the help of the text.Dicto Simpliciter (绝对判断)Hasty Generalization(草率结论, 不完全归纳)Post Hoc (牵强附会, 假性因果)Contradictory Premises (矛盾前提, 二立背反，大前提有毛病Ad Misericordiam：拉丁文，意思为诉诸同情文不对题(a Latin phrase meaning "to pity" ; a fallacy in logic of appealing to pity or compassion. )False Analogy (错误类比)Hypothesis Contrary to Fact (与事实相反的假设)Poisoning the Well (投毒下井)1. Dog is a pet. Everyone likes it.2. I haven’t seen a UFO; Jason hasn’t either; Ms Yan hasn’t probably; so no UFO at all.3. Don’t sing this song. Every time you sing this song, the baby gets sick.4. This is the mightiest sword which is able to shatter any shield, and that is the most indestructible shield which is capable of enduring any stroke.5. “He was late to the class today.” “Because he was scolded by his mother yesterday.”6. Since we have moon cakes in the Moon Festival, why don’t we have spring cakes in the Spring Festival?7. If the gunpowder hadn’t been invented, there wouldn’t have been so many wars in the world.8. Don’t listen to any word from him, for he is most shameful cheating around the world.Please match the terms with those examples which will help you to understand how does the plot develop in the whole text. （study group）What are the characteristics of the title?What kind of genre the text belong to? Argumentation\narration\exposition\description?Elements of a storySetting:Conflict: fallacy & LoveCharacters:Protagonist:Antagonist:Point of view:Ⅴ. detailed studyPara 41.who is the protagonist? What is the name?How did the narrator describe himself? Notice the way he introduced himself What is the function of this exaggerated self-praise?1) Cool was I and logical. (what kind of sentence structure?)2) Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute-- I was all of these. Give the English meaning and make sentences.What is the rhetorical device in the following comparison?His brain –1. dynamo -- powerful2. a chemist's scales--- precise, accurate3. scalpel -- penetrating3. What's the purpose of the author to tell the characteristics of '' I '' at the beginning?p5-21 introduction of the first antagonist -- Petey BurchHow does the narrator evaluate Petey? What kind of personality does that show? Please pick out words or phrases to describe Petey.Para.5Please complete the following three sentences.1) Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (give us the whole sentence)2) A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.3) Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist.2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (paraphrase)Study paras 25,26,27How does the writer evaluate the girl?But what is his standard for choosing his spouse(配偶)?How did he see marriage?Discussion: 1. What is your view on marriage?2. What are your standards for choosing your spouse?。
love-is-a-fallacy-爱情是谬误
在进入今天主题，讲述我和小美的故事之前我想先给大家推荐这样的一片文章，其实正是因为我自己的经历我才深深的懂得了这篇文章的内在，而我希望将它跟大家分享，如果你在爱情里面遇到类似的问题，那么我相信这篇文章会给你一点启示的，当然同时，你也可以提升自己的英文。
Love Is a Fallacy《爱情是个谬误》这是一篇我非常喜欢的文章，这也是在大学里我教授的三年级外语专业学生高级英语课本里面的一篇经典文章，国外的大学生也会同步在写作课学习这篇文章。
以前我喜欢它只是单纯把它当做一篇幽默的文章来对待，其实也没有深深的去体会过其中滋味，但是现在我才真正体会到为什么爱情是一个谬误。
主人公是一个非常自信甚至很自负的法学院大一男生Dobbie,他自认为又帅，又有才，他看上了自己室友的女友，很想得到那个女生，但是这个女生Polly只是一个表面很漂亮但却很没有脑子的女生，所以Dobbie决定要先改变这个女孩，把她变聪明之后再得到她。
当然第一步是得先得到室友的同意。
室友是一个拜金狂，依然没有脑子，于是Dobbie用一件浣熊大衣作为交换条件就轻松得到了室友的许可，于是就和Polly开始约会了。
约会的内容就是教不同的逻辑谬误给Polly，为的就是让她变聪明，因为主人公认为逻辑是让人变聪明的法宝，于是约会就这么开始了，他教授的逻辑问题如下：1. 绝对判断（Dicto Simpliciter）的谬误。
例子如下：“运动是非常有益的，它能增强体质，所以每个人都应该做运动!”，这个论断是明显错误的，因为运动有益是一种无条件的前提。
比方说，假设你得了心脏病，运动不但无益，反而有害，有不少人医生就不准他们运动。
你必须给这种前提加以限制。
你应该说，一般来说运动是有益的。
或者说，对大多数人是有益的。
否则就是犯了绝对判断的错误2. 草率结论（Hasty Generalization）的谬误。
例子如下：“你不会讲法语，我不会讲法语，皮蒂也不会讲法语。
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/v_show/id_XMzI4OTIxNDQ=.html（这是6-59段的performance，可作参考）
If to give an individual definition to love, what will your definition be?
Love is ___________________. 每位学生想出一个词。
上课提问。
Practicing (Appreciation of logic fallacies)
In this story, there are many logical terms and examples about these terms which are given by the narrator in correspondence. You have previewed the story. Can you list all of them?
Analyze the following fallacies with the help of the text.
Dicto Simpliciter (绝对判断)
Hasty Generalization(草率结论, 不完全归纳)
Post Hoc (牵强附会, 假性因果)
Contradictory Premises (矛盾前提, 二立背反，大前提有毛病
Ad Misericordiam：拉丁文，意思为诉诸同情文不对题(a Latin phrase meaning "to pity" ; a fallacy in logic of appealing to pity or compassion. )
False Analogy (错误类比)
Hypothesis Contrary to Fact (与事实相反的假设)
Poisoning the Well (投毒下井)
1. Dog is a pet. Everyone likes it.
2. I haven’t seen a UFO; Jason hasn’t either; Ms Yan hasn’t probably; so no UFO at all.
3. Don’t sing this song. Every time you sing this song, the baby gets sick.
4. This is the mightiest sword which is able to shatter any shield, and that is the most indestructible shield which is capable of enduring any stroke.
5. “He was late to the class today.” “Because he was scolded by his mother yesterday.”
6. Since we have moon cakes in the Moon Festival, why don’t we have spring cakes in the Spring Festival?
7. If the gunpowder hadn’t been invented, there wouldn’t have been so many wars in the world.
8. Don’t listen to any word from him, for he is most shameful cheating around the world.
Please match the terms with those examples which will help you to understand how does the plot develop in the whole text. （study group）
What are the characteristics of the title?
What kind of genre the text belong to? Argumentation\narration\exposition\description?
Elements of a story
Setting:
Conflict: fallacy & Love
Characters:
Protagonist:
Antagonist:
Point of view:
Ⅴ. detailed study
Para 4
1.who is the protagonist? What is the name?
How did the narrator describe himself? Notice the way he introduced himself What is the function of this exaggerated self-praise?
1) Cool was I and logical. (what kind of sentence structure?)
2) Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute-- I was all of these. Give the English meaning and make sentences.
What is the rhetorical device in the following comparison?
His brain –
1. dynamo -- powerful
2. a chemist's scales--- precise, accurate
3. scalpel -- penetrating
3. What's the purpose of the author to tell the characteristics of '' I '' at the beginning?
p5-21 introduction of the first antagonist -- Petey Burch
How does the narrator evaluate Petey? What kind of personality does that show? Please pick out words or phrases to describe Petey.
Para.5
Please complete the following three sentences.
1) Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (give us the whole sentence)
2) A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.
3) Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist.
2. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. (paraphrase)
Study paras 25,26,27
How does the writer evaluate the girl?
But what is his standard for choosing his spouse(配偶)?
How did he see marriage?
Discussion: 1. What is your view on marriage?
2. What are your standards for choosing your spouse?。