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mental

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Related topics: Psychology, psychiatry
men·tal /ˈmentl/ ●●● S2 W2 AWL adjectiveadj
1  [only before noun]MIMP relating to the health or state of someone’s mind 精神健康的；精神状态的 → psychiatric
The centre provides help for people suffering from mental illness.
该中心对精神病患者提供帮助。
Stress has an effect on both your physical and mental health.
压力对身体健康和心理健康都有影响。
2  [only before noun]MPMIND relating to the mind and thinking, or happening only in the mind 思想的；精神的；思考的；智力的
a child’s mental development
儿童的智力发育
You need to develop a positive mental attitude.
你需要培养积极的心态。
mental picture/image (=a picture that you form in your mind) 脑海里的图像/形象
I tried to get a mental picture of him from her description.
我试图根据她的描述想象出他的样子。
3  make a mental note REMEMBERto make a special effort to remember something 记在脑子里
Sarah made a mental note to ask Janine about it later.
萨拉心里记着一会儿要向雅尼娜问问这事。
Examples from the Corpus
make a mental note• I let the subject pass and made a mental note for myself.• I let the remark pass, but made a mental note for myself.• Child circled the classroom, making mental notes of good or negative parenting behavior he would discuss with the adults later.• He made a mental note of the byline above the Globe articles, Frank Dougherty, then sifted through the newspaper photographs.• He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars.• The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect.• Just make a mental note of what is around.• As he came in, I made a mental note of where he put the keys.• I said nothing to Liz, but made a mental note to ask her sister about it later.• He made a mental note to buy another chair.• He made a mental note to call her and arrange a time to meet, away from her parents.• She made a mental note to call Marcia when she got home.
4  mental block FORGETUNDERSTANDa difficulty in remembering something or in understanding something 心理阻隔；记忆阻隔；思维阻隔
I got a complete mental block as soon as the interviewer asked me a question.
面试官刚问了我一个问题，我的脑子就出现一片空白。
Examples from the Corpus
mental block• With the uh, mental block.• She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy, and concealed it until four days before she went into labour.• Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.• Most of the blocks mentioned here are at the physical level, but the emotional and mental blocks are equally important.• Spring focus: 2B Chuck Knoblauch claims he received help during the offseason with his mental block on routine throws.• Their mocking faces caused a mental block - or a block somewhere else.
5  go mental British EnglishBrE spoken informal
a) ANGRYto get very angry 非常生气
b) CRAZYto start behaving in an uncontrolled or excited way 行为失常，发疯
Examples from the Corpus
go mental• We're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental.• Back home, the missus is going mental and your dinner's in the dustbin.
6  [not before noun] British EnglishBrE informalCRAZY thinking or behaving in a way that seems crazy or strange 〔思维或行为〕疯癫的，不正常的
He must be mental!
他一定是疯了！
n7  British EnglishBrE informal very confused, busy, or exciting
I had a mental time at the festival – there was all sorts of crazy stuff going on!
—mentally adverbadv
I was exhausted, both physically and mentally.
我身心俱疲。
Examples from the Corpus
mental• The power goes beyond that which can be defined as physical or mental.• That guy's mental!• In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.• After months of overworking, Briggs was suffering from mental and physical exhaustion.• The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way - the physical, mental and spiritual aspects.• Rick had a complete mental breakdown after his family died in a car crash.• Swiney proposed that women's racial superiority was evidenced both by their physical and mental capabilities and in their internal cellular composition.• It takes a lot of mental effort to understand these ideas.• He craved effort, especially mental effort.• mental health• There had been, the broadcast added unexpectedly, a history of mental instability.• Recently escaped from the state mental institution.• Thornton also stars as a mildly retarded man who returns to his hometown after 25 years in a mental institution.• a mental institution• Violent mental patients were kept in a separate ward.• a hospital ward for non-violent mental patients• I'd never met Jane's boyfriend, but I had a clear mental picture of what he looked like.• We knew she had been having mental problems.
mental health• He says that managed care firms integrate physical and mental health care.• By 1987 five inpatient units in general hospitals had been created and thirteen mental health centres.• Interviewees reported that a few service users had refused to allow their names to be placed on a mental health database.• Mrs Carter pushed for mental health legislation and regularly attended cabinet meetings.• The first is to provide now a mental health service specifically for hostel dwellers or those living on the streets.• United Behavioral Health, however, applied only for the mental health services component.• Planning proposals for a new system of mental health services for the areas of Lisbon and Oporto were developed.• The mental health system was even worse.
mental picture/image• Slowly, the process converges on a piece of art that is an expression of the user's own mental image.• Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.• Visualization / Imagery-This technique combines relaxation exercises with the creation of mental images.• Lydecker says she can tune in to animals' mental images and feel their emotional and physical sensations.• They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.• She had an acute mental picture of him.• Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.• This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technical options are discussed.
Origin mental
(1400-1500) French Late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens “mind”

See also: -ment

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