We're not here for an intellectual exercise, or to impress anybody.

我们在这儿不是为了做智力练习，或者给某人留下印象。

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Reading the classics is an excellent intellectual exercise which will arm you with a lot of powerful intellectual tools.

阅读经典书籍是个绝妙的脑力练习，将会赋予你强大的智力工具。

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Maths is an intellectual exercise.

数学是一种智力训练。

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It is a reasonable intellectual exercise to theorise but it is necessary at times to calibrate such theories to the real world.

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The hardest intellectual exercise will be settling on how much is enough.

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Although it is a stimulating intellectual exercise to imagine the inherent risks to any company, true disasters are rarely predicted ahead of time.

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