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

“查理认为打算偷溜出去。”“哦。”他冥思苦想着。

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！

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

好在今天精力充沛，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.

冥思苦想很久要不要在书里放一章来详细地谈谈语法。

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

个计划太复，太累，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!

花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辩护时，们可以说他们在冥思苦想耗尽心力。

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。

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.

的意思是， 你可以独自坐在那儿， 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样的搭配？

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.

所以当告诉的孩子们不要太频繁地使用手机时，需要深深地冥思苦想，来证明为什么仍然可以经常使用手机。