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  3. In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always

In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always

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问题     In his autobiography, Darwin himself speaks of his intellectual powers with extraordinary modesty. He points out that he always experienced much difficulty in expressing himself clearly and concisely, but (46)【he believes that this very difficulty may have had the compensating advantage of forcing him to think long and intently about every sentence, and thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning and in his own observations.】He disclaimed the possession of any great quickness of apprehension or wit, such as distinguished Huxley. (47)【He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.】His memory, too, he described as extensive, but hazy. So poor in one sense was if that he never could remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry. (48)【On the other hand, he did not accept as well founded the charge made by some of his critics that, while he was a good observer, he had no power of reasoning.】This, he thought, could not be true, because the "Origin of species" is one long argument from the beginning to the end, and has convinced many able men. NO one, he submits, could have written it without possessing some power of reasoning. He was willing to assert that "I have a fair share of invention, and of common sense or judgment, such as every fairly successful lawyer or doctor must have, but not, I believe, in any higher degree." (49)【He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully."】
    Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty or beyond it poetry of many kinds gave him great pleasure. Formerly, too, pictures had given him considerable, and music very great, delight. In 1881, however, he said: "Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music." (50)【Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character.】
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答案另一方面，某些人批评他虽然善于观察，却不具备推理能力，而他认为这种说法也是缺乏根据的。
解析 本题中带有一个同位语从句that while...reasoning修饰charge. 但是本句真正的难点在于：accept as well founded the charge的理解问题。这是英语中常见的宾语后置现象，其实还原以后是：accept the charge as well founded即：认为该指责是有根据的。由于宾语charge后面带有made引导的过去分词做后置定语以及由that引导的同位语从句，导致把整个宾语从原来的位置直接移到句尾起到突出作用。
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