请问reading 36中exercise 16的第9题

youngseeUID: 3489314

原文：
If people are regarded only as machines guided by logic, as they were by some "scientistic" thinkers, rhetoric is likely to be held in low regard; for the most obvious truth about rhetoric is that it speaks to the whole person. It presents its arguments first to the person as a rational being. Logical argument is the plot, as it were, of any speech or essay that is respectfully intended to persuade people. Yet it is a characterizing feature of rhetoric that it goes beyond this and appeals to the parts of our nature that are involved in feeling, desiring, acting, and suffering. It recalls relevant instances of the emotional reactions of people to circumstances-real or fictional-that are similar to our own circumstances.

第九题：The passage suggests that the disparagement of rhetoric by some people can be traced to their
(A) reaction against science
(B) lack of training in logic
(C) desire to persuade people as completely as possible
(D) misunderstanding of the use of the term "scientistic"
(E) view of human motivation

我选的D，答案选E，不是很明白human motivation指的什么

warterflyUID: 2997994

我想就是前半句，"if people are regarded only as machines guided by logic"，鄙视修辞学的人认为人就应该按照逻辑思考，像机器一样。Human motivation 值得应该就是这个吧。

a00034980UID: 3475743

第一句话中regard熟词僻意解释为motive，5 : a basis of action or opinion : MOTIVE （来自韦氏）

warterflyUID: 2997994

a00034980 发表于 2014-9-21 07:26
第一句话中regard熟词僻意解释为motive，5 : a basis of action or opinion : MOTIVE （来自韦氏）

谢谢楼上，终结此贴……