Intellectual life was teeming with grand ideas.

智慧的人生伴随伟大的思想倾泻而出。

I — I thought it your metropolis: is not the intellectual life more active there?

我——我想那是你所在的大城市：那儿的精神生活不是更活跃吗？

Intellectual life was focused on study of the Talmud, in which they achieved extraordinary mastery.

智力生活的重点是研究犹太法典，他们在其中所取得的不平凡的通达。

We believe that a healthy intellectual life cannot exist separately from a life of art and creativity.

我们相信离开了艺术和创造力我们的生活将变得了无生趣。

Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be.

这就叫智力的生活，他想，其中有美，他连做梦也不曾想到过的、温暖人心的、了不起的美。