In one of his cases the spleen was enlarged. He was inclined to regard the disease as a neurosis. Aphasia is a disease of the faculty of language, that is, a disturbance of the processes by which we see, hear, and at the same time appreciate the meaning of symbols. It includes also the faculty of expressing our ideas to others by means of the voice, gesture, writing, etc. The trouble may be central or in the conducting media. The varieties of aphasia are:--
(1) Amnesia of speech. (2) Amnesia of speech and written language. (3) Amnesia of speech, written language, and gesture.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
This imitative faculty in especial I inherited from my grandmother Babbit, born Mary Saunders, of Gloucester, Cape Ann. Her faculty of imitation was very remarkable. I remember sitting at her feet on a little stool and hearing her sing a song of the period, in which she delighted me by the most perfect imitation of every creature belonging to the farmyard.英文原著 · 《Autobiographies》
The servants of a household have a curious faculty of divining what is going on before they are actually told about anything. Sebastian and Tinette must have possessed this faculty in a high degree, for even as the doctor was going downstairs, Tinette, who had been rung for, entered Clara's room.英文原著 · 《Heidi》
Is it too quixotic to urge teachers who tell stories to little children to bear these thoughts, and better ones of their own, in mind? Not, I think, if it be fully accepted that the story hour, as a play hour, is a time peculiarly open to influences affecting the imitative faculty; that this faculty is especially valuable in forming fine habits of speech; and that an increasingly high and general standard of English speech is one of our greatest needs and our most instant opportunities in the American schools of to-day.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
At these times she thought of Malbone, how gifted he was, how inexhaustible, how agreeable, with a faculty for happiness that would have been almost provoking had it not been contagious. Then she looked from her airy perch and smiled at him at the club-window, where he stood in the most negligent of attitudes, and with every faculty strained in observation. A moment and she was gone.英文原著 · 《Malbone》
"In reality, there is only one solitary MANCY. The faculty of seeing in TIME, like the faculty of seeing in SPACE, is ONE, whatever its outward form or the process employed."英文原著 · 《The Unknown Guest》
I will talk it over with my faculty and we will let you know.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But I read in your brochure that faculty members get a 50% discount, so for your art department, How would you like to hire an award-winning children's book illustrator who is great with kids And has a face you can't say no to?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》