（摘自《2007考研英语高分写作》，王江涛编著，群言出版社）

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A third kind of thinking is stimulated when anyone questions our beliefs and opinions. We sometimes find ourselves changing our minds without any resistance or heavy emotion, but if we are told that we are wrong we resent the imputation and harden our hearts. We are incredibly heedless in the information of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obvious not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self－esteem, which is threatened. We are by nature stubbornly pledged to defend our own from attack, whether it be our person, our family, our property, or our opinion. We may surrender, but rarely confess ourselves vanquished. In the intellectual world at least, peace is without victory.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions; indeed, we have a natural repugnance to so doing. We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

参考译文

当有人质疑我们的信仰或观点时，激发了我们的第三种思维。有时我们发现自己没有任何抵制或强烈的感情就改变了想法，但如果有人说我们错了，我们就会憎恨这种诋毁，并且变得强硬起来。我们难以置信地忽视关于我们信仰的信息，但当有人谋求剥夺我们的信仰时，我们就会充满难以抑制的激情。显而易见，并非这些信仰自身对我们亲切，而是我们的自尊受到了威胁。我们自然而然地顽固发誓捍卫自己免受攻击，无论是我们的个人、家庭、财产还是观点。我们可以屈服，但我们很少承认自己被彻底击败。至少在智力领域，没有胜利，只有和平相处。

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