基礎英語

主に備忘録や個人的なアウトプットの場。指導した英文などを忘れないように記録。

京都大学(1999,1988)訳なし

(1999)

In our daily lives we all predict and explain other people's behavior from what we think they know and what we think they want. Beliefs and desires are the explanatory tools of own intuitive psychology, and intuitive psychology is still the most useful and complete science of behavior there is.

 

類語

・useful

valuable beneficial advantageous helpful practical nifty

・predict

foresee expect forecast

 ・Intuitive

perceptive  sensitive

・explanatory

descriptive illustrative  instructive (教育的な)

 

(1988)

To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories are more often guilty of cruelty  than those who have not. Aggressive , destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than a stimulus to direct action.

 

類語

・cruelty 

unkindness meanness malice

・stimulus

incentive motivation spur

・verbal

spoken oral vocal