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I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task. This girl's lack of information was terrifying.
我帶著不大痛快的心情回到了房間。我對這任務的艱巨性估計得太低了。這姑娘的知識少得叫人吃驚。
Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information First she had to be taught to think.
只是給她增加知識還不夠，首先得教她學會思考。
This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.
這可不是一件容易的事，當時我真想把她還給皮蒂算了。
But then I got to thinking about her abundant physical charms and about the way she entered a room and the way she handled a knife and fork, and I decided to make an effort.
但我一想到她那充滿魅力的身材，她那進屋時的模樣，她那拿刀叉的姿式，我還是決定再作一番努力。
I went about it, as in all things, systematically. I gave her a course in logic.
就像做其他的事情一樣，我開始有計劃地干了起來。我開始給她上輯課。
It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself,so I had all the facts at my finger tips.
幸好我是一個學法律的學生，我自己也正在學邏輯學，所以對要教的內容我都很熟悉。
Polly, I said to her when I picked her up on our next date, tonight we are going over to the Knolland talk.
當我接她赴第二次約會時，我對她說：今晚上咱們去'小山'談談吧。
0o, terrif (=terrific), she replied. One thing I will say for this girl: you would go far to find another so agreeable.
啊，好極了，她回答道。對這姑娘我要補充一句的是，像她這么好商量的人是不多見的。
We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. What are we going to talk about?she asked.
我們去了小山，這是校園里人們幽會的地方。我們坐在一棵老橡樹下，她用期待的眼神看著我。我們談些什么呢?她問。
She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. Magnif (=magnificent), she said.
她想了一會兒，覺得不錯，便說：好極了。
Logic, I said, clearing my throat, is the science of thinking. Before we can think correctly, we must first learn to recognize the common fallacies of logic.
邏輯學，我清了清嗓了，就是思維的科學。在我們能正確地思維之前，首先必須學會判別邏輯方面的常見謬誤。
These we will take up tonight.
我們今晚就要來談談這些。
