阅读36套 EX18中关于social science一题

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-8-20 16:12:14

The social sciences are less likely than other intellectual enterprises to get credit for their accomplishments. Arguably, this is so because the theories and conceptual constructs of the social sciences are especially accessible: human intelligence apprehends truths about human affairs with particular facility.This underappreciation of the social sciences contrasts oddly with what many see as their overutilization. Game theory is pressed into service in studies of shifting international alliances. Evaluation research is called upon to demonstrate successes or failures of social programs. Yet this rush into practical applications is itself quite understandable: public policy must continually be made, and policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findings and untested theories are better guides to decision-making than no findings and no theories at all.

9. The author confronts the claim that the social
sciences are being overutilized with
(A) proof that overextensions of social science
results are self-correcting
(B) evidence that some public policy is made
without any recourse to social science findings or theories
(C) a long list of social science applications that are
perfectly appropriate and extremely fruitful
(D) the argument that overutilization is by and
large the exception rather than the rule
(E) the observation that this practice represents the
lesser of two evils under existing circumstances

题目如上，计时做的时候，基本没读懂，随便猜了。
分析的时候，用排除法，一直排除到E。
但是非常不理解(E)中 “ the lesser of two evils”是什么？

希望读懂文章的人能帮忙解答下，谢谢！

竹林中人 · 发表于 2013-8-20 16:41:37

这是一个固定说法，两害取其轻

huangtan · 发表于 2013-8-20 16:56:28

同上，相当于有一个不那么妥当的方法总比无方法要好；看下面：

Yet this rush into practical applications is itself quite understandable: public policy must continually be made, and policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findings and untested theories are better guides to decision-making than no findings and no theories at all. 这里就在解释social science 被overutilized的原因，E答案是这句话的改写。

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-8-20 18:59:49

huangtan 发表于 2013-8-20 16:56
同上，相当于有一个不那么妥当的方法总比无方法要好；看下面：

Yet this rush into practical applicatio ...

文章对我来说比较抽象，你分析的很仔细，结合竹林版主的解释就懂了！谢谢！

可爱多饭团团 · 发表于 2013-8-20 19:01:15

竹林中人发表于 2013-8-20 16:41
这是一个固定说法，两害取其轻

谢谢竹林版主解答。看来还需要提升语言积累，谢谢！

ppca1992 · 发表于 2013-8-21 21:42:17

policymakers rightly feel that even tentative findings and untested theories are better guides to decision-making than no findings and no theories at all.

关键是这句咯，有总比没有好的意思~也就是说two evil 就是utilize untested theory和no theory to use，然后政府选的是utilize untested~

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