Or losing the ability to do something. Or losing mental powers.

或者失去做某事的能力，或失去精神动力。

But two studies published this year suggest birds have amazing mental powers.

但今年发表的两项研究表明，鸟类拥有惊人的智力。

But one should keep learning daily to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.

但我们必须坚持每天学习才能让我们保持思维敏锐，并扩增大脑容量。

It is at this point that the people fail who separate mental power from personal action.

因此，很多人之所以会失败，就因为他们没能将自己的思想和行动统一起来。

This Bene Gesserit breeding program cultivates each successive generation to possess greater acumen with their mental powers.

贝尼·杰瑟里特培育计划培养出的每一代人都拥有更敏锐的精神力量。

As if he may be able to convince whoever is standing outside to disappear by his mental powers alone.

就像他可以用意念说服门口的人自动消失。

It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by physical power.

利用心理作用或思想去影响，纠正他人的行为或思想，强奸他人的意志，与从身体上胁迫要挟他人一样，都是错误至极的做法。

His terrors were so violent, as nearly to annihilate his mental powers.

他的恐惧是如此强烈， 几乎要摧毁他的精神力量。

That habitual cheerfulness, termed good humour, is, perhaps, as seldom united with great mental powers, as with strong feelings.

那种习惯性的快乐，被称为幽默风趣，也许很少与强大的智力相结合，也很少与强烈的感情相结合。

Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.

同样，我们应该每天坚持学习，以保持我们敏锐的脑力和扩展我们的智力。

Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.

同样地，我们应该日复一日不断地学习以保持我们敏锐 的心智能力，并扩充我们的智力容量。

Activating the brain's social network involved in socially motivated learning and memory may allow students to tap unused mental powers.

7. 激活参与社会动机学习和记忆的大脑社交网络可以让学生挖掘未使用的智力。

The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

作者（1855 年）也根据每一种智力和能力的必要获得的原则来对待心理学。

That he was old was quite evident, but if his age had impaired his physical or mental powers in the slightest it was not apparent.

他老了这一点很明显，但如果他的年龄对他的体力或智力有丝毫损害，那就不明显了。

I may here premise, that I have nothing to do with the origin of the mental powers, any more than I have with that of life itself.

我可以在这里假设， 我与精神力量的起源无关， 就像我与生命本身无关一样。

Although the Water of Life is fatal even in small quantities, high-ranking members of the sisterhood are able to transform the substance into a benign liquid with their mental powers.

尽管即使少量生命之水摄入也会让人致命，但是姐妹会的高级成员能够用他们的精神力量将这种物质转化为良性液体。

Lastly, more than one writer has asked why have some animals had their mental powers more highly developed than others, as such development would be advantageous to all?

最后，不止一位作家问过为什么有些动物的智力比其他动物更发达， 因为这种发展对所有人都有利？

Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.

心理学将牢固地建立在赫伯特·斯宾塞先生已经奠定的基础之上， 即通过渐变获得每一种智力和能力的必要基础。

The question for you from day to day is how to learn to work to advantage, and college is the place and now is the time to win mental power.

你每天面临的问题是如何学习工作以发挥优势， 大学是获得精神力量的地方， 现在正是赢得精神力量的时候。

He had the good memory which is more useful for scholastic achievements than mental power, and he knew Mr. Watson expected him to leave the preparatory school with a scholarship.

他的记忆力很好，这对学业成绩比智力更有用，而且他知道华生先生希望他能拿到奖学金离开预科学校。