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智力
Intellect
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
智力的作用是提供一种方法来改变我们对生活环境的反应，使我们能够获得快乐，这是幸福的征兆。
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
心灵就像一幅织得很厚的织锦，其中的色彩是从感官的经验中提炼出来的，图案是从智力的错综复杂中提炼出来的。
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
因此，重要的不是评论家应该对智慧的美有一个正确的抽象定义，而是一种气质，一种被美的存在深深打动的力量。
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
人类习惯于认为智力是拥有和控制思想的力量，学习能力是拥有思想的能力的同义词。但是，通过有想法来学习，实际上是自然界中罕见而孤立的事件之一。
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
思想是智力的劳动，幻想是其乐趣。
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
我们的文化特别推崇指责行为，认为这是美德和智慧的标志。
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
她智力不足，但身材很好。
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
我能忍受蛮力，但蛮力的理智是相当难以忍受的。它的使用有些不公平。它打击的是智力。