Would it be beyond a philosopher's research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyse that child's nature, and, from its make and mould, to give a shrewd guess at the father?

先生们，请你们想一想，耍分析这孩子的天性，要根据她的体态和气质来对她的父亲作出聪明的猜测，是不是超出了哲学家的研究范畴了呢？

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"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work" (Jerome Bruner).

“敏锐的猜想，丰富的假设，向试验性结论勇敢的跨越——这些是工作中的思考者有用的东西。”(杰若米·布鲁诺)。

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In any case, savvy readers and viewers can often make a shrewd guess about who is involved or what they are supposed to have done by assembling clues from different media in "jigsaw" fashion.

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