英文書《Asking the right questions: a guide to critical thinking》,即《學會提問：批判性思維導讀》。這周讀完的收穫是勇於質疑，質疑不一定要全弄懂成為專家時才可以提，也不是為了批評，而是就接觸到的信息進行屬於自己的加工。
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#215
If this were the case, we could read and listen passively and let others do our thinking for us.
分析：虛擬語氣，如果實際是這樣，我們就被動的讀和聽就好了，讓別人為我們做思考。
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#215
Consequently, you need critical reading and listening skills to help you determine what makes sense and distinguish this clear thinking from the sloppy thinking that characterizes much of what you will encounter.
分析：比較有魅力的一個句子。Sloppy thinking馬馬虎虎的思考。
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#215
The inadequacies in what someone says will not always leap out at you.
分析：adequate準確的，前綴in-表示否定，再變成名詞。名詞這麼用 inadequacies覺得挺精煉。Leap out是什麼意思？本意是跳出，在句子裡就是別人說的話的不準確不是那麼容易跳到你眼前來，也就是不是那麼顯而易見。
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#221
A powerful advantage of these questions is that they permit you to ask searching questions even when you know very little about the topic being discussed.
分析：即使你對討論的話題並不清楚，也可以提出searching questions
searching questions怎麼翻譯？——有建設性的問題
舉例子來解釋上述的話：
For example, you do not need to be an expert on childcare to ask critical questions about the adequacy of day-carecenters.
不必要成為一個兒童護理的專家才能提日間護理中心的問題。
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到新的一節
The Myth of the “Right Answer”，這一節的小標題 ，對正確答案的誤解
#226
While the precise distance to the moon or the age of a newly discovered bone from an ancient civilization may not be absolutely certain, agreement about the dimensions of our physical environment is widespread. Thus, in the physical sciences, we frequently can arrive at “the right answer.”
分析：舉例說明了物理世界、考古世界的維度精度沒那麼準確，也是正確的答案。解釋“正確答案”的具體含義。
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#226
In addition, because many of us care a great deal about explanations and descriptions of human behavior, we prefer that explanations or descriptions of the rate of abortion, the frequency of unemployment, or the causes of child abuse be consistent with what we want to believe.
分析：表達不錯，the rate of abortion(墮胎率)。
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