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单词 mental
释义 men·tal
I. \ˈmentəl\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Late Latin mentalis, from Latin ment-, mens mind + -alis -al — more at mind
1. : of or relating to mind: as
 a. : relating to the integrated activity of an organism; specifically : relating to the total emotional and intellectual response of an organism to its environment
  < the role played by the comics in the mental life of the children — Winfred Overholser >
  < found him in a terrible mental state — very depressed and even panicky >
  < the mental set of an individual >
 b. : of or relating to intellectual as contrasted with emotional activity : of or relating to the process or mode of thought or capacity for thought
  < free from any mental defects >
  < racial explanations of the mental character of the Greeks — Benjamin Farrington >
  < note what mental level you are on with that person — W.J.Reilly >
  < mental exertions >
 c. : of, relating to, or being intellectual as contrasted with overt physical activity
  < mental work >
  < made swift mental calculations >
 d. : occurring or experienced in the mind : not voiced or given other sensory expression : inner
  < mental reservations >
  < filled it for him, under mental protest — George Meredith >
  < refusal to shape either the words or the mental images of prayer — Frank Yerby >
  < mental anguish >
 e. : relating to or concerned with mind, its activity, or its products as an object of study : relating to or concerned with ideology : ideological
  < exercised a great influence on the philosophy of history, the study of jurisprudence, politics, and indeed on all the mental sciences — Frank Thilly >
  < the whole of mental science — William James >
 f. : relating to or being spirit or idea as opposed to matter : immaterial, spiritual, ideal
  < the distinction between physical things and mental ideas — J.W.Yolton >
  < your mind is mental, but that which you perceive with your senses is also mentalEncore >
2.
 a.
  (1) : of, relating to, or affected by mental deficiency or any of a variety of psychiatric disorders
   < a mental patient >
   < a mental case >
  (2) : wacky, crazy
   < are mental from birth … and every so often go quite round the bend — Rose Macaulay >
   < anyone who isn't mental can see it's a bowl — Anthony West >
   — often used in the phrase go mental
   < was going a bit mental from old age — Nevil Shute >
   < when people go mental they nearly always turn against their nearest … relations — Rosamond Lehmann >
 b. : intended for or devoted to the care or treatment of persons affected by psychiatric disorders
  < a mental hospital >
  < the qualified psychiatric nurse in Britain is officially registered as a registered mental nurse — Trained Nurse & Hospital Review >
3. : relating to or marked by possession or display of telepathic, mind-reading, or other occult powers
 < set up the stage for the mental act — W.L.Gresham >
 < the greatest mental medium of all time — Hereward Carrington >
Synonyms:
 intelligent, intellectual, cerebral, psychic: mental indicates a connection with or emphasis on the mind as a center of rational activity; it contrasts matters emotional or physical
  < she writes straight from the emotions; nothing mental ever gets in her way — Anita Loos >
  < if from any bodily or mental defect the eldest son is disqualified for ruling — J.G.Frazer >
  < completed the banishment of natural appearances from the art of painting, substituting therefor a mental world of geometrical derivatives — F.J.Mather >
  intelligent indicates a degree of mental power enabling a person or animal to appraise a situation and make a variety of sound or acceptable decisions; it often contrasts with stupid or silly
  < intelligent self-interest should lead to a careful consideration of what the road is able to do without ruin — O.W.Holmes †1935 >
  < friends who were a little more intelligent and would understand — John Hersey >
  intellectual may indicate connection with the higher powers of the mind; it may contrast with emotional and may suggest a noticeable scope, depth, or complexity
  < words have an emotional and imaginative, as well as an intellectual context — J.L.Lowes >
  < a scientist is known not by his technical processes but by his intellectual processes — F.W.Peabody >
  intellectual may suggest an accustomed or lasting concern with higher challenges to the intellect rather than the acumen displayed in a particular decision
  < less intellectual and therefore more intelligent in his approach — Edgar Smith >
  cerebral may suggest cold, analytic intellectual activity or inclination, to the exclusion of the emotional or sensuous
  < wrote about Catholicism from the cerebral slant of the converted intelligentsia — Book-of-the-Month Club News >
  psychic suggests reference to the psyche, the inner self, and guides the reader away from notions of the physical, physiological, or organic
  < not materialist but psychic factors are the decisive forces of history — Time >
  < I don't accept the idea of psychic diseases analogous to mental diseases — Compton Mackenzie >
II. noun
(-s)
: a mentally disordered person
 < no mentals had occurred for a hundred years or more — Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction >
III. adjective
Etymology: Latin mentum chin + English -al; akin to Welsh mant mouth, lip, Latin mont-, mons mountain — more at mount
: of or relating to the chin, the median part of the lower jaw, or the mentum of an insect : genial
IV. noun
(-s)
: a plate, scale, or shield (of a fish or reptile) occurring in the mental area
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