…was translated into Latin and then awkwardly translated from Latin into English in the 1500s, into an archaic predecessor of modern English that is almost but not quite intelligible to the modern ear. Prior Analytics is not the Bible, it doesn't have to be quoted verbatim in whatever translation you favor to keep Aristotle from smiting you with thunderbolts or some such.
……它们的环境。在这里读到亚里士多德关于动物智慧的想法，我觉得挺巧的，因为就在几天前我还给亚里士多德《Prior Analytics》里的这段话做了笔记：“设 A 为乌鸦，B 为智慧，C 为人。则 A 不属于任何 B；因为没有哪个有智慧之物是乌鸦。但 B 对所有 C 都是可能的；因为人人皆可能有智慧。”我确信这不是具体的……
…their environment. I found it an interesting coincidence to read here about Aristotle's thoughts on animal intelligence, because just a couple days ago I made a note of this passage from Aristotle's "Prior Analytics": "Let A be raven, B intelligent, and C man. A then belongs to no B; for no intelligent thing is a raven. But B is possible for every C; for every man may be intelligent." I'm sure that's not the specific…
Thanks for the illuminating explanation. Sounds like I can blame whoever translated to English in a 1581 text of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, the wrong usage of “beg”. At the same time, I intend to use the phrase correctly in the future!
MIT 正在出版一本汇编这些经典论文的书：亚里士多德的《Prior Analytics》（约公元前 350 年），戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨的《The True Method》（1677 年），L. F. Menabrea 的《Sketch of the Analytical Engine》（1843 年），附译者洛夫莱斯伯爵夫人阿达·奥古斯塔的注释……
MIT is publishing a book that collects these classic papers: Prior Analytics (∼350 BCE) By Aristotle The True Method (1677) By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) By L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace…
…approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to read the Prior Analytics, for instance.
这些经典著作在 Sci-Hub 之外也应该能找到！比如《Prior Analytics》http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html ，大多数知名论文在 Google Scholar 上都能搜到！
The classics should be available outside of scihub! For example, Prior Analytics http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html Most famous papers are available via Google scholar!
……先被翻译成拉丁文，然后在 16 世纪又别别扭扭地从拉丁文译成英语，成了一种古奥晦涩的早期近代英语，现代人听起来勉强能懂但又很难完全理解。《Prior Analytics》（前分析篇）又不是圣经，根本没必要为了防止亚里士多德降雷劈你之类的，就必须一字不差地引用你偏好的某个译本。
…was translated into Latin and then awkwardly translated from Latin into English in the 1500s, into an archaic predecessor of modern English that is almost but not quite intelligible to the modern ear. Prior Analytics is not the Bible, it doesn't have to be quoted verbatim in whatever translation you favor to keep Aristotle from smiting you with thunderbolts or some such.
……它们的环境。在这里读到亚里士多德关于动物智慧的想法，我觉得挺巧的，因为就在几天前我还给亚里士多德《Prior Analytics》里的这段话做了笔记：“设 A 为乌鸦，B 为智慧，C 为人。则 A 不属于任何 B；因为没有哪个有智慧之物是乌鸦。但 B 对所有 C 都是可能的；因为人人皆可能有智慧。”我确信这不是具体的……
…their environment. I found it an interesting coincidence to read here about Aristotle's thoughts on animal intelligence, because just a couple days ago I made a note of this passage from Aristotle's "Prior Analytics": "Let A be raven, B intelligent, and C man. A then belongs to no B; for no intelligent thing is a raven. But B is possible for every C; for every man may be intelligent." I'm sure that's not the specific…
感谢透彻的解释。听起来我把“beg”的错误用法归咎于 1581 年某本亚里士多德《Prior Analytics》英译本的译者就行了。不过话说回来，我以后打算把这个短语用对！
Thanks for the illuminating explanation. Sounds like I can blame whoever translated to English in a 1581 text of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, the wrong usage of “beg”. At the same time, I intend to use the phrase correctly in the future!
MIT 正在出版一本汇编这些经典论文的书：亚里士多德的《Prior Analytics》（约公元前 350 年），戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨的《The True Method》（1677 年），L. F. Menabrea 的《Sketch of the Analytical Engine》（1843 年），附译者洛夫莱斯伯爵夫人阿达·奥古斯塔的注释……
MIT is publishing a book that collects these classic papers: Prior Analytics (∼350 BCE) By Aristotle The True Method (1677) By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) By L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace…
……平易近人，或许阿塔那修也是；当然反面的例子也不少——我立马就想到了亚里士多德。比如，读一读别人对他的逻辑学的解读，大概率也比硬啃《Prior Analytics》强得多。
…approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to read the Prior Analytics, for instance.
这些经典著作在 Sci-Hub 之外也应该能找到！比如《Prior Analytics》http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html ，大多数知名论文在 Google Scholar 上都能搜到！
The classics should be available outside of scihub! For example, Prior Analytics http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html Most famous papers are available via Google scholar!