揽瓜阁做题小分队 第19天 编辑的理解力

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Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and mockery. But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to compassion when they begin to indulge in self-complacent airs, and to call themselves sane critics, meaning that they are mechanics. And when, relying upon their numbers, they pass from self-complacency to insolence, and reprove their betters for using the brains which God has not denied them, they dry up the fount of pity.

If a hale man walks along the street upon two sound legs, he is not liable to be chased by crowds of cripples vociferating Go home and fetch your crutch. If a reasoning man edits a classic rationally, he is. What a critic is, and what advantage he has over those who are not critics, can easily be shown by one example. Cicero‘s oration pro rege Deiotaro was edited between 1830 and 1840 by Klotz, Soldan, and Benecke. The best MS then known was the Erfurtensis, and all three editors pounced on this authority and clung to it, believing themselves safe. In 1841, Madvig, maintaining reason against superstition in Cicero‘s text as I now maintain it in Juvenal‘s, impugned 17 readings adopted from the Erfurtensis by these editors, and upheld the readings of inferior MSS. We now possess MSS still better than the Erfurtensis, and in 12 of the 17 places they contradict it; they confirm the inferior MSS and the superior critic.

But there are editors destitute of this discriminating faculty, so destitute that they cannot even conceive it to exist; and these are entangled in a task for which nature has neglected to equip them. What are they now to do? Set to and try to learn their trade? That is forbidden by sloth. Stand back and leave room for their superiors? That is forbidden by vanity. They must have a rule, a machine to do their thinking for them. If the rule is true, so much the better; if false, that cannot be helped: but one thing is necessary, a rule. A hundred years ago it was their rule to count the MSS and trust the majority. But this pillow was snatched from under them by the great critics of the 19 th century, and the truth that MSS must be weighed, not counted, is now too widely known to be ignored.

The sluggard has lost his pillow, but he has kept his nature, and must needs find something else to loll on; so he fabricates, to suit the change of season, his precious precept of following one MS wherever possible. Engendered by infirmity and designed for comfort, no wonder if it misses the truth at which it was never aimed. Its aim was purely humanitarian: to rescue incompetent editors alike from the toil of editing and from the shame of acknowledging that they cannot edit.

1. The author‘s discussion takes the reader to the topic of the Erfurtensis MS in paragraph two. The example of this manuscript is relevant to the claim that:
A. the Erfurtensis MS is not very reliable.
B. no single MS can be assumed to be always right.
C. Madvig was a lazy editor.
D. MSS must be weighed, not counted

2. Suppose that the author is present at a panel discussion on the topic of this passage where all of the following statements are made by other panellists. According to the arguments he has put forth in the text, the author is LEAST likely to agree with which of the following statements?
A. It should not be assumed that the majority of the MSS of a classical text are correct.
B. Madvig was a better editor than Klotz, Soldan, or Benecke.
C. It is a mistake to think that one MS of a particular text is better than another.
D. There is no simple rule for editing that eliminates the need for critical discrimination.
E. The Erfurtensis was one of the best known MS in the period 1830-1840

3. In spite of what may or may not appear in the first paragraphs of the passage, the bulk of the passage is devoted to showing:
A. that incompetent editors have developed methods for avoiding the difficulties of responsible editing.
B. that the Erfurtensis MS is no longer considered the best MS of Cicero‘s pro rege Deiotaro.
C. that it was discovered in the nineteenth century that MSS must be weighed, not merely counted.
D. that Cicero was editing more often during the 1830s than during any other decade.
E. that responsible editing has become an extinct concept

参考答案，做完才看 ：）

BCA

joliajjj

P1：理解力不是用来藐视和嘲弄的，编辑丧失同理心还自认为理智。Aw-
P2：举例（健全的人不会被瘸子嘲讽）评论家..举例..遭到反驳
DCC  答案BCA
放弃，看不懂

svwma

AEA

梦游的感觉

Zoey_peng

我要考HEC-Paris 发表于 2021-9-18 18:52
这个文章组织是错的，所以读起来很难，上面的第一段其实是最后一段，Frailty of understanding is in itsel ...

我说为啥一句都看不懂，感觉毫无逻辑可言……

大月亮cyn

Day19 ABA 没看懂。。。MSMSS是啥啊
1. B 第二段当时已知的最好的 MS 是 Erfurtensis，三个编辑都 扑向这个权威，并紧紧抓住它，认为自己是安全的。在 1841 年，马德维格，保 持反对对西塞罗的文本迷信的理由，因为我现在保持它在尤维纳尔的，质疑 17 读数通过从 Erfurtensis 由这些编辑，并坚持下级 MSS 的读数。我们现在拥有的 MSS 仍然比 Erfurtensis 更好，并在 17 个地方的 12 个地方，他们与它相矛盾， 他们证实了劣质 MSS 和优越的批评。A. Erfurtensis MS 不是很可靠.(不符，E 当时是最好的，非正确选项)  B. 不能认为任何一个 MS 都是永远正确的。
2. C. 认为某一文本的某一 MS 比另一 MS 好是错误的。(正确，末段，遵循一个 MS 是被批判的，所以作者是同意某一文本不同 MS 有优劣，不同意这一观点 错误)。B(M 反对盲从，有可 能，非正确选项)

崔大套

BDE 根本读不懂

我要考HEC-Paris

这个文章组织是错的，所以读起来很难，上面的第一段其实是最后一段，Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and mockery. But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to compassion when they begin to indulge in self-complacent airs, and to call themselves sane critics, meaning that they are mechanics. And when, relying upon their numbers, they pass from self-complacency to insolence, and reprove their betters for using the brains which God has not denied them, they dry up the fount of pity. If a hale man walks along the street upon two sound legs, he is not liable to be chased by crowds of cripples vociferating Go home and fetch your crutch. If a reasoning man edits a classic rationally, he is.
这是最后一段，总结用的。原文第二段的开头几句是最后一段的末尾，wht a critic is 才是文章开头

张晴雨

我的答案：BBE
正确答案：BCA
用时：12分钟
看不懂。。

飞跃重洋2017

AEE

Happyduo

看一下！