高级英语2love is a fallacy中英译文.pdfVIP

Cool was I and logical. Keen, calculating, perspicacious, acute and astute —I was all of these. My brain wa a powerful a a dynamo, precise a a chemist’ scales, a 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 young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Bellows, my roommate at the university. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstair s. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I su bmit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender oneself to idiocy just because everybody else is doi ng it—this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey. 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。 One afternoon I found Petey lying on his bed with an expression of such distr e on hi face that I immediately diagnosed appendicitis. “Don’t move,” I sai d, “Don’t take a laxative. I’ll get a doctor.” “Raccoon,” he mumbled thickly. “Raccoon?” I said, pausing in my flight. “I want a raccoon coat,” he wailed. I perceived that hi trouble wa not physical, but mental. “Why do you want a raccoon coat?” 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。” “浣熊，”他咕哝着说。 “浣熊?”我停下来问道。 “我要一件浣熊皮大衣，”他痛苦地哭叫着。 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?” “I should have known it,” he cried, pounding hi temples. “I should have kno wn they’d come back when the Charleston came back. Like a fool I spent all my money for textbooks, and now I can’t get a raccoon coat.” “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