intellectual work

基本解释

Each session of intellectual work required the burning of only three more calories than relaxing did.
每一阶段的脑力劳动需要燃烧的热量只比放松的时候多3卡路里。
One reason for this behavioral discrepancy could be chemical: more grueling intellectual work corresponded with greater fluctuations of glucose and insulin in the body.
导致这种行为差异的原因可能和化学反应有关：更严酷的思维活动与人体内大量增加的血糖和胰岛素有关。
A study in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine contends that intellectual work—that’s right, I’m calling writing this stuff, ya know, intellectual—induces a big increase in caloric intake.
发表在身心医学杂志上的一项研究声称脑力劳动——没错，我就说写作这个东西，你知道，费脑力的——会引起热量摄取的增加。

I think you will find this course as not a vocational course-- not primarily a vocational course-- but an intellectual course about how things really work.
你会发现这不是一门为就业所设计的课程,并不集中探讨业务知识,而是一门关于事物机制的课程
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This is the intellectual focus, in other words, of Richards' work.
这是Richards作品关注的理性焦点。
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Intel actually was very kind about letting me go and do that and giving me the space to have a different moment of intellectual work.
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Coincidentally, that firm has previously served both Apple and Samsung by aiding the firms with their intellectual property work.
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