Faculty

(noun.) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.

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• Not to mention that women and children are most subject to pity, as being most guided by that faculty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This consolation principally consists in their invention of the words: faculty and occult quality. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The reason is (as you know) the only faculty to which education should be addressed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• This faculty, or instinct, was now rouzed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Would you say that knowledge is a faculty, or in what class would you place it? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Somewhat allied to this curious faculty is another no less remarkable, and that is, the ability to point out instantly an error in a mass of reported experimental results. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And is opinion also a faculty? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This sentiment, then, as it is entirely unreasonable, must proceed from some other faculty than the understanding. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• For what is the memory but a faculty, by which we raise up the images of past perceptions? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• As yet I had not thought; I had only listened, watched, dreaded; now I regained the faculty of reflection. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He brought the invaluable faculty, called common sense, to bear on the Colonel's letter. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I've got my faculties as if I was in my prime, but names wear out, by Jove! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I do not know that my mental faculties are impaired. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I believe that the strange incidents connected with it will afford a view of nature, which may enlarge your faculties and understanding. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Emphasis is placed upon the devising, adapting, constructing faculties. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Sight and hearing, for example, I should call faculties. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It's three o'clock in the morning, and I've got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I will begin by placing faculties in a class by themselves: they are powers in us, and in all other things, by which we do as we do. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I regarded it as a brief holiday, permitted for once to work-weary faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Accustomed as I was to Holmes's curious faculties, this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts was utterly inexplicable. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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