"When people enter into that pattfern of thinking,"says Kendall Taylor, "it's cognitively comfortable to make sense of issues of poverty in that way.

“当人们进入这种思维模式时，”肯德尔·泰勒说，“在认知上，用这种方式来理解贫困问题就会让人心安理得。”

Practicing a piece of music for four hours requires focused attention, but it is nowhere near as cognitively demanding as a sleepover with 14-year-old girls.

练习一段音乐4个小时需要集中注意力，但它远不及一个在外过夜的14岁女孩对认知的要求。

Although it is possible that only people who are cognitively healthy would pursue such activities, those who read newspapers or magazines or played music did not show similar benefits.

虽然可能只有认知能力健全的人才会从事这些活动，但在那些能够阅读报纸杂志或演奏音乐的人身上并未表现出类似的益处。

Similarly, it's not possible to picture or imagine what it's like to have fainted and be completely unconscious with nothing happening cognitively.

同样的，要想象,完全不省人事的昏迷,没有任何知觉的感觉也不可能。

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So I don't necessarily accept all my irrational thoughts and again, we'll talk about it much more next week of how we can cognitively reframe what we were thinking.

我没有必要接受,所有不理智的想法，下周我们会更深入地探讨,如何认知性地重塑自己的想法。

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This is a very tricky situation, particularly if Dad is cognitively just fine and is in charge of his finances.

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They were simply not cognitively equipped to endure it without mental breakdowns.

NEWYORKER: Hellhole

Black children are more likely to be raised in single-parent homes than are white children and single-parent homes are less cognitively complex than two-parent homes.

NEWYORKER: None of the Above