" Charlie thinks I'm sneaking out." " Oh." He contemplated that.

“查理认为我打算偷溜出去。”“哦。”他冥思苦想着。

Kim's program, which has a spiritual undertone, is a mix of martial arts, meditation and gardening.

金东的项目带有精神修养的基，了武术、冥思和园艺。

To get a good score in a maths exam, you need to be good at mental gymnastics!

要想在数学考试中取得好成绩，你需要擅长冥思苦想！

They plan to add an event space for 4,000 people, a bookstore and a peaceful place to think quietly.

他们计划增加一处可以容纳4000人的活动场地，一家书店和一处安静的冥思场所。

Luckily, I'm full of energy today, so mental gymnastics won't be a problem!

好在我今天精力充沛，冥思苦想没问题！

I thought long and hard about whether or not to include a detailed section on grammar in this little book.

我冥思苦想了很久要不要在这本小书里放一章来详细地谈谈语法。

He thinks he's going to be able to cope with the isolation well by relying on the power of meditation.

他相信己能轻松度过隔离期，凝神冥思能给他足够的力量。

This plan is too complicated, and I'm too tired for the kind of mental gymnastics I'd need to work it out.

这个计划太复杂了，我太累了，没办法冥思苦想把它给做出来。

He sank into the chair, and brooded over the embers, and shed tears.

他跌坐在椅子里，对着余烬冥思苦想，泪流满面。

I spent weeks trying to figure out what to get you! Weeks!

我花了好几个星期冥思苦想不知道给你买什么礼物！ 好几个星期！

When people try to justify saying something that they don't really believe – we can say that they are doing mental gymnastics.

当人们试图为一些他们并不真正相信的话，我们可以说他们在冥思苦想耗尽心力。

Contemplation is his joy and he achieves it through a fantastically demanding discipline, the accomplishment of which is itself a joy within him.

冥思是他的快乐所在，他 通过要求极高的修行获得快乐，这种修行的完成本身便是他内心的快乐。

If you know what the subject of your sentence is, you can then create sentences without um (ing) and ah (ing) or hesitating and looking for words.

如果你知道句子的主语，你就可以构建句子，不用迟疑，冥思苦想。

She would have been seen essentially by priests or monks from a privileged elite-so in fact relatively few would actually have been able to meditate on her image.

她的金身基本只有上层社会的僧侣才能看到，因此只有极少数人能对着她的形象冥思。

I mean, you can sit there and think like by yourself till you turn blue in the face, but the reality is no one's giving you feedback.

我的意思是， 你可以独坐在那儿， 冥思苦想到脸色发青，但实际上没人给你反馈。

So if I have an idea, tamarind and pineapple, maybe a bit of fennel, rather than thinking and thinking for days and researching, has anyone done this before?

所以如果我有个想法，比如酸角和菠萝，再加点茴香，而不是整天冥思苦想、翻遍资料去查有没有人之前做过这样的搭配？

And so when I started meditating on the question, it took me a while, but the answer that came, and when it came, it came like a bang.

因此， 当我开始冥思这个问题，虽然花费了一些间， 但答案一旦出现，就如同惊雷般清晰明了。

So when I tell my children not to use their phone so much, it takes some serious mental gymnastics to justify why it's still OK for me to use my phone so much.

所以当我告诉我的孩子们不要太频繁地使用手机，我需要深深地冥思苦想，来证明我为什么仍然可以经常使用手机。

But I started to notice when I started listening to my soul and when I started to meditate on the question, what does life want from me, I started to feel an aliveness.

但当我开始倾听己的灵魂， 开始冥思这个问题：“生活想从我这里得到什么？ ”我便开始感受到一种生机。

John Paulson made billions predicting the bursting of America's housing bubble; James Chanos, a short-seller, disrobed Enron; and Ray Dalio, the boss of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, makes a killing for his investors and keeps calm doing transcendental meditation.

约翰•保尔森因预测到美国房地产泡沫而赚了几十亿美元；卖空家James Chanos剥光了安然公司；世界上最大的对冲基金Bridgewater总裁Ray Dalio，为其投资者抓住猎杀机会而通过冥思竟作来保持冷静。