1. His theory: when it comes to predicting people's success, brain capacity as measured by IQ may actually matter less than the qualities of mind once thought of as "character".
    这是他的理论：要预测人的成功，智商所衡量的大脑能力实际上远不如曾被看作"性格"的心智的素质重要。

2. During the 1960s and 1970s, politicians in my native country, India, used to wave the slogan "Stop the Brain Drain" — a reference to the fact that the cream of India was leaving for the lucrative shores of England and America.
    在20世纪60和70年代，我的祖国印度的政客们常常喊着"制止人才外流"的口号, 它所指的实际上是这样一个事实: 印度的精英们正在离开印度，到能够赚钱的国家——英国和美国去。

3. During a single crucial three-week period during our teenage years, chemical activity in the brain is cut in half.
    我们的青少年阶段有一个为期三周的关键时期，此时脑部的化学反应活动一分为二。

4. A great deal will arrange itself in the brain without the learning of too many special rules or the aid of elaborate explanations.
    许多东西被吸收到脑子里面以后，自然会整理得有条不紊，倒不一定依靠学会许多特殊的规则，或是借助于十分周详的解释。

5. "It's clear that the brain benefits from exercise," says brain scientist William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-尚佩恩分校的脑科学家威廉·格里诺说，"很明显，运动使大脑受益。"

6. "The animals that learned to go through the obstacle course exhibited a greater number of brain connections than the animals in the exercised or inactive groups," Greenough said.
    "与跑动的和不运动的老鼠相比，经过越障训练的老鼠脑神经联结数更多。" 格里诺说，

7. "In contrast, the animals that exercised inside the automatic wheel possessed a greater density of blood vessels in the brain than did either of the other two groups of animals."
    "相比之下，在自动轮中跑动的老鼠，较之其他两组的老鼠，其大脑的血管密度更大。"

8. "In older people, an exercise program appears important for brain maintenance," says Daniel M. Landers, professor of exercise science at Arizona State University,
    亚利桑那州立大学的运动学教授丹尼尔·M. 兰德斯说，"对老年人来说，锻炼计划对维持大脑功能似乎非常重要。"

9. A single gene will code for only one of the many molecules and cell proteins that are the building blocks of the brain.
    一个基因仅仅为构成大脑的众多分子和细胞蛋白中的一个指定遗传密码。

10. Another advance, a computer-controlled brain scanning device, has led to a second discovery by those seeking the biological component of mental abilities.
    另一进展，一台计算机控制的脑部扫描仪，使得寻找思维能力的生理因素的研究人员有了第二个发现。