Tonight we're going to talk about abilities.

今天晚我们将要讨论能力。

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I will talk about abilities in the next piece, please be patient.

我会在下一章讲到能力，请耐心等待。

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When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers.

当在任何领域极具天赋的学生谈论什么对他们能力的发展是重要的，他们更可能提到他们的家庭，而不是他们的学校或老师。

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But talk of the mind is just a way of talking about these abilities that the body has when it's functioning properly.

但是心灵,仅仅是在肉体还能正常工作时,对这些精神能力的一种表述

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For our purposes, I think that won't be crucial, and so I'll sometimes talk about this set of abilities without actually having a canonical list.

但鉴于课程的目的,这点并不在我们的讨论重点之内,所以我也许偶尔会提及人的这些能力,但并不会把它们详尽地列举出来

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The point, though, is that from the physicalist perspective, the best thing to say is, talk about a mind is a way of talking about these various mental abilities of the body.

从物理主义的角度出发,用最确切的语言加以表达,心灵是表述,肉体各种精神能力的方式

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As Barash works through the common evolutionary speculations about our sexual behavior, mental abilities, religion, and art, he shows how far we still are from knowing how to talk about the evolution of the mind.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So