Curiosity is the taproot of an intellectual life, the most valuable of our simian traits.

好奇是高智生命的根源，也是我们类人猿特征中最有价值的部分。——Dr。

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But he illustrates the consequences that such intellectual pastimes may have in a man's life, and in this regard he is an artist.

然而，他却阐明了这种智力活动对人们生活造成的种种后果，从这一点上看，他是一个艺术家。

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These questions are sometimes answered by invoking phrases like "the life of the mind" or "the intellectual life," which suggest a mysterious realm of value accessible only to an elite few.

有些人的回答会用“有思想的生活”或者“知识分子生活”这种话，而这些只是说明这一价值领域的神秘性只有少数精英可知。

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Alice Kaplan, a close student of French intellectual life, quotes an anti-Nazi teacher who, when coaching pupils for the Ecole's entrance exam, wondered if they would put their intelligence and learning to misuse.

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Poke around the Latin Quarter (so named because university students here communicated in Latin until the French Revolution and it was renowned worldwide as an intellectual incubator), the centre of academic life in Paris.

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They became a focus for intellectual life and could be seen as an implicit rival to the mosque as a meeting place.

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