Most scholars agree that King Alfred (A.D. 849–899) personally translated a number of Latin texts into Old English. One historian contends that Alfred also personally penned his own law code, arguing that the numerous differences between the language of the law code and Alfred's translations of Latin texts are outweighed by the even more numerous similarities. Linguistic similarities, however, are what one expects in texts from the same language, the same time, and the same region. Apart from Alfred's surviving translations and law code,there are only two other extant works from the same dialect and milieu, so it is risky to assume here that linguistic similarities point to common authorship.
The passage above proceeds by
providing examples that underscore another argument's conclusion
questioning the plausibility of an assumption on which another argument depends
showing that a principle if generally applied would have anomalous consequences
showing that the premises of another argument are mutually inconsistent
using argument by analogy to undermine a principle implicit in another argument
这题的阴险之处在于没有明说原argument的assumption是什么,而是需要自己推测,而且他把assume这个词写在最后一句话里,搞得我一直在前面的部分找assunption怎么也找不到。。。直觉是想选B的,但是由于一开始没找到assumption所以就没选B!
题做多了 脑壳痛 需要提高阅读能力
统计推理
C.说明一个原则如果被广泛应用会造成不合适的后果(文章并没有说这个原则被大范围应用可能造成不好的后果,而是直接质疑了这个原则)
D.说明另一个论点的假设们互相不相容(这里注意看premise用了复数,强调的是几个假设的对比,而文中就一个假设,何来对比?)
大多数学者都认为,a国王(公元849-899)亲自将大量拉丁文翻译成古英语。一位历史学家认为,阿尔弗雷德本人也亲自撰写了自己的法典,历史学家认为,法律法典的语言与阿尔弗雷德对拉丁文本的翻译之间存在着诸多差异,但相似之处甚至是超过了差异的。(观点认为,相似之处是大于差异的,所以是翻译和法典都是那国王写的),(下面反驳)然而,语言相似性是人们在同一语言、同一时间、同一区域所创作的文本中会出现的。除了a国王在世的翻译和法典之外,只有另外两个现存的作品,来自同一种方言和环境,所以在这里假设语言上的相似性指向共同作者是有风险的。(削弱了assumption的可信度,学者根据相似程度大于不同推出了法典翻译都是国王写的,但是however后表明,可能是同一地区环境,同一语言,导致了这种相似性而不是说法典和翻译是一个人写的,后面说只有两个作品也就很难明确确定这个地区时间是否有相似性,因为毕竟样本少)
整个文章在讲什么啊? 不是很懂,谢谢~~~