精神状态：指一个人的心灵状态。精神状态有很多种类，例如感知、痛苦体验、信念、欲望、意图、情感和记忆。关于这个精神状态的确切定义存在争议。
a temporary psychological state
同义词： frame of mind
the state of a person's cognitive processes
同义词： cognitive state
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在《大脑的状态》（States of Mind）一书中，Steven Hyman指出：“多巴胺产生作用的一个最显著的特点就是它是一个报偿系统。
[7]（49）他指出，词语（word）涉及声音（sound）、心智状态（states of mind）和事物（thing）等三个方面，其中事物与它本身同一，心智状态也与它本身同一，它们虽然各有特性，但都有普世性；事物和心智状态通...
Fears are nothing more than states of mind.
恐惧只不过是心智的状态。
Some researchers have tried to move deeper, to understand the states of mind that produce smiles.
有些研究者曾试过做进一步的研究，了解人类在微笑时的意识状态，我们认为是代表了幸福感。
There are no esoteric formulas or secret states of mind that produce good designs effortlessly.
没有任何奥妙的公式或神秘的心境可毫不费力地提出好的设计方案。
But it's some sort of skin disease, flaking skin disease or other sorts of boils and skin states that seem to be associated, at least in the Israelite mind, with decomposition and death.
但它是一种皮肤病，皮肤会一片片地剥落,或者是生疖和出现一些与皮肤有关的症状，至少在以色列人心目中，这种症状和腐烂、死亡联系在一起。
旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
In fact, our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly depended on our state of mind, not on our status, or the states of our bank account.
事实上，我们的准备和体验幸福的可能性,主要由我们的心境决定，不是我们的地位或银行账户状况。
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Again, to say that means I was comparing their states of mind is ludicrous.
If the phrase makes you think of Grateful Dead concerts and drug-induced states of mind, think again.
ECONOMIST: Now it's for corporate executives and old buffers too
Instead, he presented three of his old works, in which scantily dressed men showed us extreme states of mind, or at least of body.