ability，capacity，capability，genius，talent，competence，faculty，gift，aptitude
这些名词都可表示人的“能力，才能”之意。
ability普通用词，指人先天的或学来的各种能力。
capacity侧重指人的潜在能力，通常不指体力，多指才智，尤指接受与领悟能力。
capability多用于人，指胜任某项具体工作的能力，也指本身具有、尚未发挥的潜在能力。常与of或for连用。
genius语气最强，指天赋的高度才能与智力。
talent着重指人某方面具有可发展和培养的突出天赋才能，但语意比genius弱。
competence正式用词，侧重指令人满意的业务能力与水平，达到胜任某项工作等的要求。
faculty指特殊的才能或智力。
gift着重个人的天赋的才能或在某方面的显著本领，常暗含不能用一般规律作解释的意味。
aptitude多指先天或后天习得的运用自如的能力，常暗示接受能力强，能迅速掌握一种学术训练或艺术技巧。
Exercise of the mental faculties is as important as bodily excercise.
智能的锻炼同身体的运动同样重要.
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There had been no indication of either breathlessness or any loss of mental faculties right until his death.
他去世前并未出现呼吸困难或意识不清的迹象。
柯林斯例句
All your faculties have come into play in your work.
在你的工作中,你的全部才能已起到了作用.
《简明英汉词典》
The university is out to raid faculties from coast to coast.
那所大学要到全国各地去挖教授.
辞典例句
He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties.
这位教授应该试图唤醒他们沉睡和懒散的天赋.
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On the contrary, our faculties are aroused.
相反地, 它会调动我们的各种感觉器官.
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He is a superman in mental faculties [ physical strength ].
他在智力 [ 体力 ] 上是个超人.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
You are arguing outside of my faculties of sense and rhetoric.
你的论点已经超出我的理解和争辩的能力.
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He is 90 but still retains the use of all his faculties.
他已90高龄,但各种官能仍未衰退.
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He is a superman in mental faculties.
他在智力上是个超人.
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He was drunk and not in control of his faculties.
他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。
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More often we find these faculties in different individuals.
我们发现,更多的是,这些才能存在于不同的个人.
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His mental faculties survived his physical powers.
他身体虽坏精神还好.
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Although he's ninety, his mental faculties remain unimpaired.
他虽年届九旬，但头脑仍然清晰。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
Ageing is accompanied by a slow degeneration of his mental faculties.
他随着年纪增长,智力逐渐衰退.
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