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A person's power to think, understand, and reason — the "thinking" side of a person, as opposed to their feelings or emotions. We use it to talk about how sharp or capable someone's mind is.
智力；智識
組成inter- (between) + -lect (from Latin "legere," to choose or gather) — the idea of sorting and choosing between things in your mind.
同家族的字
- intelligentshares the same Latin root about the mind choosing and understanding
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
intellectnoun/ˈɪntəlɛkt/
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The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
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The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.
- Arms of stripes and shirts of checks / You had a very nice intellect
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A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。