世世代代的在小说中和现实生活中的小流氓企图用将糖倒入油箱内的 方法来破坏汽车。他们的传统信念认为这样一来糖会进入发动机,将阀碾碎。警察当然知道这一用糖破坏的诡计。当他们怀疑有人这样做了时,就将汽油从油箱中吸出进行检验。但是根据伯克利的辩论学教授约翰·桑顿的说法,这种认识是完全错误的。因为糖不溶于汽油,所以它在吸出的汽油中 Generations of fiction in the novel and in real life are trying to destroy cars by pouring sugar into the tank. Their traditional belief is that sugar will enter the engine and crush the valve. The police certainly know this trick of destroying with sugar. When they suspected that someone had done so, they took gasoline out of the tank and tested it. But according to Berkeley’s debating professor John Thornton, this understanding is completely wrong. Because sugar is insoluble in gasoline, it is in aspirate