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connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things synonym mental智力的;腦力的;理智的 Gifted children typically show great intellectual curiosity and a wide range of interests. 天才兒童通常表現出極大的求知欲和廣泛的興趣。 an intellectual novel 推理小說
Extra ExamplesTopics Working lifeb2I don't think he has the intellectual skills necessary to study at this level. 我認爲他不具備這種水平學習所需的智力技能。 It can be very difficult to measure intellectual ability. 智力水平很難進行測驗。 She has a rigorously intellectual approach to the topic. 她對這個話題有着嚴謹的理性態度。 Students should be able to develop both their creative and intellectual powers. 學生應該能夠發展他們的創造力和智力。 Their political position is hard to justify in intellectual terms. 他們的政治立場很難從理論上得到證明。 There wasn't much opportunity for intellectual discussion. 智力討論的機會不多。 You can't really appreciate art from a purely intellectual standpoint. 從純理性的角度不可能真正地欣賞藝術。
(of a person )人 well educated and enjoying activities in which you have to think seriously about things 有才智的;智力發達的 Extra ExamplesShe's extremely bright, but not really intellectual. 她非常聰明,但不是真正的知識分子。 The play was obviously written for an intellectual audience. 這出戲顯然是爲知識分子觀衆寫的。 His works were popular among the intellectual elite of the time. 他的作品在當時很受知識精英歡迎。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin intellectualis, from intellectus ‘understanding’, from intellegere ‘understand’, from inter ‘between’ + legere ‘choose’.