The stronger your mental faculties, the thinking goes, the longer you can function normally, even if your brain health starts to decline.

也就是说，即使大脑健康状况开始下降，你的心智能力越强，正常运作的时间也就越长。

Somebody with a severe and profound loss of mental faculties--the deficit will be shown correspondingly in her brain.

智力严重丧失的人——这种缺陷会相应地显示在她的大脑中。

You're not actually learning anything and you're not actually using your mental faculties to work with the actual information and content of the exam.

你实际上没有学到任何东西，也没有真正利用你的智力来处理考试的实际信息和内容。

We are concerned only with the diversities of instinct and of the other mental faculties in animals of the same class.

我们只关心同类动物的本能和其他心智能力的多样性。

As if the sudden explosion of kinetic energy forces the mental faculties to accelerate until the perception of the exterior world goes into slow motion.

就像突然爆发的动能迫使大脑功能加速到极限，让周围的一切在印象中都呈现出一种慢镜头的效果。

While we've obviously been gifted with mental faculties that allow us to reflect and plan, these faculties only exist to enhance how we act in the present.

虽然我们天生就有思考和计划的能力，但这些能力的存在只是为了增强我们当下的行动方式。

Many Buddhists would agree that we don't truly own anything outside of our mental faculties; even our bodies aren't our own as we don't fully control them.

许多佛教徒会同意，除了我们的精神能力之外，我们并不真正拥有任何东西；甚至我们的身体也不是我们自己的，因为我们不能完全控制它们。

You could of course protest, with the support of Descartes, that a lion is an animal and not a free human being with free mental faculties.

在笛卡尔的支持下，你当然可以抗议，狮子是一种动物，而不是具有自由心智能力的自由人。

Those who desired to investigate such questions were led to observe the behaviour of animals, in the hope that their behaviour would throw some light on their mental faculties.

那些想要研究这些问题的人被引导去观察动物的行为， 希望它们的行为能对它们的心智能力有所启发。

Tell him Dr. Cooper feels that the best use of his time is to employ his rare and precious mental faculties to tear the mask off nature and stare at the face of God.

告诉他库珀博士觉得他宝贵时间最有价值的用途就是 运用他那举世罕见的天赋来揭开自然的面纱 目睹上帝的真面。

This unusual poise of judgment and temper, ripened by age, became the more striking to his son Henry as he learned to measure the mental faculties themselves, which were in no way exceptional either for depth or range.

随着年龄的增长，这种不寻常的判断力和脾气变得更加成熟，这对他的儿子亨利来说更加引人注目，因为他学会了衡量自己的智力，无论是在深度还是范围上都毫不例外。

Philosophers and psychologists knew for a long time that getting smacked in the head could change your mental faculties; that diseases like syphilis could make you deranged; that chemicals like caffeine and alcohol can affect how you think.

哲学家和心理学家很早就知道， 头部受到撞击会改变你的智力；像梅毒这样的疾病会让你精神错乱； 咖啡因和酒精等化学物质会影响您的思维方式。