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  3. "Intelligence" at best is an assumptive construct--the meaning of the word has never been clear. 【61】There is more agreement on

"Intelligence" at best is an assumptive construct--the meaning of the word has never been clear. 【61】There is more agreement on

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问题      "Intelligence" at best is an assumptive construct--the meaning of the word has never been clear. 【61】There is more agreement on the kinds of behavior referred to by the term than there is on how to interpret or classify them. But it is generally agreed that a person of high intelligence is one who can grasp ideas readily, make distinctions, reason logically, and make use of verbal and mathematical symbols in solving problems. An intelligence test is a rough measure of a child’s capacity for learning, particularly for learning the kinds of things required in school. It does not measure character, social adjustment, physical endurance, manual skills, or artistic abilities. It is not supposed to-it was not designed for such purposes. 【62】To criticize it for such failure is roughly comparable to criticizing a thermometer for not measuring wind velocity.
     The other thing we have to notice is that the assessment of the intelligence of any subject is essentially a comparative affair.
     【63】 Now since the assessment of intelligence is a comparative matter we must be sure that the scale with which we are comparing our subjects provides a "valid" or "fair" comparison. It is here that some of the difficulties which interest us begin. Any test performed involves at least three factors: the intention to do one’s best, the knowledge required for understanding what you have to do, and the intellectual ability to do it. 【64】 The first two must be equal for all who are being compared, if any comparison in terms of intelligence is to be made. In school populations in our culture these assumptions can be made fair and reasonable, and the value of intelligence testing has been proved thoroughly. Its value lies, of course, in its providing a satisfactory basis for prediction. No one is in the least interested in the marks a little child gets on his test; what we are interested in is whether we can conclude from his mark on the test that the little child will do better or worse than other children of his age at tasks which we think require" general intelligence". 【65】On the whole such a conclusion can be draw with a certain degree of confidence, but only if the child can be assumed to have had the same attitude towards the test as the other with whom he is being compared, and only if he was not punished by lack of relevant information which they possess.
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答案既然对智力的评估是比较而言的，那么我们必须确保在受测者进行比较时，使用的尺度能提供“有效的”或“公平的”比较。
解析 这是一个复合句，since引导的是一个原因状语从句，主句中含有一个that引导的宾语从句，其中还含有一个with which引导的定语从句修饰the scale。此句翻译的难点涉及几个词的词义选择：本句谈论的是用scale来对事物进行比较，scale的词义为“尺度，标准”。valid和fair这两个词也能帮助确定scale的词义。同时，还要注意subject一词的词义的选择。根据上下文可知，subject是指“比较的对象”或“受测者”。
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