【华慧考博】2019年考博英语翻译每日练习(1月23日)
【翻译-英译汉练习】The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if the assumptions on which it is based are slightly changed, whereas an argument that is convincing though imprecise may well be stable under small perturbations of its underlying assumptions.
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物理学家惧怕精确的论据不无道理,因为一种只有在它是精确无误的条件下才令人信服的论据,一旦它赖于建立其上的假设稍有变化,便会失去它的全部效力;而与此相反,一个尽管并不精确但却令人信服的论据,在其基本假设稍微受干扰的情况下,仍然有可能是站得住脚的。