Translators and Bumblebees

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC · Medium · Verbal Ability

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Five sentences related to a topic are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a meaningful and coherent short paragraph. Identify the odd one out. Choose its number as your answer and key it in.

  1. Translators are like bumblebees.
  2. Though long since scientifically disproved, this factoid is still routinely trotted out.
  3. Similar pronouncements about the impossibility of translation have dogged practitioners since Leonardo Bruni's De interpretatione recta, published in 1424.
  4. Bees, unaware of these deliberations, have continued to flit from flower to flower, and translators continue to translate.
  5. In 1934, the French entomologist August Magnan pronounced the flight of the bumblebee to be aerodynamically impossible
Answer

2

Explanation

Sentences 1, 5, 3, and 4 form a parallel narrative drawing an analogy between translators and bumblebees (pronouncements of impossibility vs. continuing to fly/translate anyway). Sentence 2 is an extra sentence about the factoid being disproved.

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