It was not that they grew less intelligent.

这并不是他们变得没以前聪明了。

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He found impulses travelled fastest in smarter people and slower in those who were less intelligent.

他发现，聪明一些的人和迟钝一些的人相比，脉冲信号传输最快。

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This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year.

这并不是说所有的人在夏天比一年中的其它时间都要愚钝些。

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More than half said using dirty words at work makes an employee appear less intelligent.

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In one experiment, they found that job candidates who ordered a glass of wine during an interview over dinner were viewed as less intelligent than those who ordered a soft drink.

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Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.

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