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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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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
他认为或许正因为(语言表达上的)这种困难,他不得不对自己要说的每句话都经过长时间的认真思考,从而能发现自己在推理和观察中的错误,结果这反而成为他的优点。
解析
本句带有典型的宾语从句,从句中使用了一个may have had的虚拟语气的语法现象。翻译的难点在于一个词组:compensating advantage,如果直译成"补偿性优势"显得不知所云,因此可以采取分译法,即:可以弥补缺陷,获得优势。
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