About 500 years ago, a man could remark in all seriousness that the ostrich and the spider hatched their eggs by looking at them, that the glance of the basilisk could kill, and that the snake could draw the nightingale to her death by the mesmerism of its gaze. Leonardo da Vinci certainly thought as much, and a century later, Sir Thomas Browne remained faithful to the notion that looks could kill while doubting that the basilisk, for instance, was much more lethal than the Uraeus serpent, token of sovereignty which the Egyptian Pharaohs once bound upon their foreheads.
Sir Thomas was undoubtedly correct in his views about the basilisk, nor was he entirely off the mark in claiming that eyes can “receive offensive impressions from their objects,” as he put it. Students of behaviorism have observed that an exchange of looks between animals is the usual prelude to all manner of social interactions, from casual acquaintance to fierce fighting.
The very form of the eye lends itself to being the natural image of its own function. Nature herself has made play with this fact, for animals such as dogs may sport a pair of spots upon their foreheads which intensify their gaze and the expression of their faces. The effect of this can be quite mythological: is not folk-lore full of ogres who are safe to approach only when their eyes are open, for they must therefore be sound asleep?
【題組】What is most probably the author’s explanation that ogres can sleep with their eyes open?
(A)Those eyes are evil.
(B) Those eyes are not real.
(C) Those eyes are magical.
(D)Those eyes are always open.
stone 高二下 (2012/05/02) 作者先是提到有些狗額頭毛色會長出兩個點，這兩個假眼有助於強化牠們的眼神和表情。然後說『這種效果其實很神話，因為民間傳說裡不是常常說你得在怪物們眼睛睜大大的時候才接近牠們，因為牠們眼睛大睜的時候一定是熟睡的時候嗎？』（就是說怪物們大睜的都是假眼啦）我想他的意思是說，狗長兩個假眼真的有用嗎？人的老古傳說裡都說越像眼睛的越假呢！所以作者應該是拿人的傳說來嘲謔地懷疑自然之『讓動物生出假眼』到底會不會有用啊。這就.....看完整詳解
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