12.The physicist rightly dreads precise argument,since an argumentthat is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if theassumptions on which it is based are slightly changed,whereas anargument that is convincing though imprecise may well be stable undersmall perturbations of its underlying assumptions.
物理学家恐惧于那些精确无误的论据不无道理,因为某种只有在它是精确无误的条件下才令人置信的论据,一旦它赖于建立其上的假设稍有变化,便会失去它一部的作用;而与此相反,一个尽管并不精确无误但却令人置信的论据,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。
13.However,as they gained cohesion,the Bluestockings came toregard themselves as a womens group and to possess a sense of femalesolidarity lacking in the salonnieres,who remained isolated from oneanother by the primacy each held in her own salon.
起初,蓝袜女们确实模仿了法国沙龙女主人,将男性襄括到其小圈子中来。然则,随着她们获得的凝聚力,她们渐趋将自己视作一女性团体,并拥有了一种妇女团结意识,而这种意识在法国沙龙女主人身上则荡然无存,因为她们每个人在其自己的沙龙中自视甚高而彼此孤立隔绝开来。
14.As my own studies have advanced,I have been increasinglyimpressed with the functional similarities between insect andvertebrate societies and less so with the structural differences thatseem,at first glance,to constitute such an immense gulf between them.
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