单词 | mental |
释义 | men·tal I. 1. a. < 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. < 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. < mental work > < made swift mental calculations > d. < 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. < 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. < 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 mental — Encore > 2. a. (1) < a mental patient > < a mental case > (2) < 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. < a mental hospital > < the qualified psychiatric nurse in Britain is officially registered as a registered mental nurse — Trained Nurse & Hospital Review > 3. < set up the stage for the mental act — W.L.Gresham > < the greatest mental medium of all time — Hereward Carrington > Synonyms: < 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. < no mentals had occurred for a hundred years or more — Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction > III. IV. |
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