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Apr 23, 2006 03:54
18 yrs ago
English term

any glimmer of the higher reason penetrates back into the grades of life below t

English to Chinese Social Sciences Psychology child study
Even if it be true that any glimmer of the higher reason penetrates back into the grades of life below the attainment of speech, it must be only into those just below, and is not to be looked for in our baby for a long time yet.

意思不难懂却翻不好:(
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Wenjer Leuschel (X) Apr 27, 2006:
你最好把你自己翻譯這句的情況貼出來,也許別人就可以幫你做一點修潤工作。
tvera (asker) Apr 23, 2006:
Thank you, Lesley 意思我是懂的。但是怎么翻译中文才不至于太拗口呢?

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the higher reason, I think maybe children come to this stage around 10 years old?

grades of life below the attainment of speech = before children can talk

(I guess the 'wiring' in their brains comes together bit by bit...to attain a 'higher life form'!)

the tone is not to be taken too seriously - a bit ironic, playful (like the whole piece I guess)

glimmer because reason is light/enlightenment, and comes from a higher level.

(a bit like the Marxist theory of social development? clan commune, slave, feudal, capitalist, socialist, communist utopia...I learnt this in China!)
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