英文菜谱新视野第一册读写教程课文第八单元中英文对照

Unit 8

Section A

Birth of Bright Ideas

No

satisfactory

way

exists

to

explain

how

to

form

a

good

idea.

Y

ou

think

about

a

problem

until

you're

tired,

forget

it,

maybe

sleep

on

it,

and

then

flash!

When

you

aren't

thinking about it, suddenly the answer arrives as a gift from the gods.

Of course, all ideas don't occur like that but so many do, particularly the most important

ones.

They

burst

into

the

mind,

glowing

with

the

heat

of

creation.

How

they

do

it

is

a

mystery

but

they

must

come

from

somewhere.

Let's

assume

they

come

from

the

This

is

reasonable,

for

psychologists

use

this

term

to

describe

mental

processes

which

are

unknown

to

the

individual.

Creative

thought

depends

on

what

was

unknown becoming known.

All of us have experienced this sudden arrival of a new idea, but it is easiest to examine

it in the great creative personalities, many of whom experienced it in an intensified form and

have

written

it down

in

their

life stories and

letters. One can draw examples

from

genius

in

any

field,

from

religion,

philosophy

,

and

literature

to

art

and

music,

even

in

mathematics,

science,

and

technical

invention,

although

these

are

often

thought

to

depend

only

on

logic

and experiment. All truly creative activities depend in some degree on these signals from the

unconscious,

and

the

more

highly

insightful

the

person,

the

sharper

and

more

dramatic

the

signals become.

Take

the example of

Richard Wagner composing the opening to

had

been

occupied

with

the

idea

of

the

for

several

years,

and

for

many

months

had

been struggling to begin composing. On September 4, 1853, he reached Spezia sick,

went to

a hotel, could not sleep for noise without and fever within, took a long walk the next day

, and

in

the

afternoon

flung

himself

on

a

couch

intending

to

sleep.

Then

at

last

the

miracle

happened

for

which

his

unconscious

mind

had

been

seeking

for

so

long.

Falling

into

a

sleeplike

condition,

he

suddenly

felt

as

though

he

were

sinking

in

a

mighty

flood

of

water,

and

the

rush

and

roar

soon

took

musical

shape

within

his

brain.

He

recognized

that

the

orchestral opening

to the

which

he

must have carried about within

him

yet

had

never been able to put it into form, had at last taken its shape within him. In this example, the

conscious mind at the moment of creation knew nothing of the actual processes by which the

solution was found.

As

a

contrast,

we

may

consider

a

famous

story:

the

discovery

by

Henri

Poincare,

the

great

French

mathematician,

of

a

new

mathematical

method

called

the

Fuchsian

functions.

Here

we

see

the

conscious

mind,

in

a

person

of

highest

ability,

actually

watching

the

unconscious at work. For weeks, he sat at his table every day and spent an hour or two trying

a great

number of combinations but

he arrived at

no

result. One

night

he drank some black

coffee, contrary to

his

usual

habit, and was

unable to sleep. Many

ideas kept surging

in

his

head; he could almost

feel them pushing against one another,

until

two of

them combined to

form

a

stable

combination.

When

morning

came,

he

had

established

the

existence

of

one

class of Fuchsian

functions. He

had only

to prove the results, which took only a

few

hours.

Here,

we

see

the

conscious

mind

observing

the

new

combinations

being

formed

in

the

unconscious,

while

the

Wagner

story

shows

the

sudden

explosion

of

a

new

concept

into

consciousness.

A

third

type

of

creative

experience

is

exemplified

by

the

dreams

which

came

to

Descartes

at

the

age

of

twenty-three

and

determined

his

life

path.

Descartes

had

unsuccessfully

searched

for

certainty

,

first

in

the

world

of

books,

and

then

in

the

world

of

men.

Then

in

a

dream

on

November

10,

1619,

he

made

the

significant

discovery

that

he

could only

find certainty

in

his own

thoughts, cogito ergo sum (

therefore,

I exist

This dream filled him with intense religious enthusiasm.

Wagner's,

Poincare's,

and

Descartes'

experiences

are

representative

of

countless

others

in every field of culture. The unconscious is certainly the source of instinctive activity

. But in

creative

thought

the

unconscious

is

responsible

for

the

production

of

new

organized

forms

from relatively disorganized elements.

Unit8-A

奇思妙想是如何形成的，

现在还没有令人满意的解释。

你对某一个问题思考了很久，

直至感到疲劳，把它忘掉了，也许暂时不去想它了，可后来却忽然来了灵感

!