Research on thought suppression (e.g. "Don't think about white bears!") has shown that trying to avoid a thought makes it even more active in your mind.

关于抑制想法的研究（比如“不要想白熊”）已经表明了尝试抑制一种想法会让它在你的头脑中更加活跃。

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When you think with full and strong concentration about something that you want to happen, and your mind does not resist the subject of your thought, your thought materializes.

当你用全部的、足够坚定的信念集中在你希望发生的事情上，以至于你的精神无法抵制你的这个想法，你的想法就实现了。

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You can say good-bye to pesky thumb arthritis from overtexting. Now all you have to do is think a thought with this specific person in mind and that thought will be instantly sent to their phone.

您可以告别那讨人厌的过度输入造成的拇指关节炎了，现在您只需要在大脑中想起某个人，您所想的事情就能立刻发送到他们的电话里了。

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An Alliance member described the result of these discussions: "People began to think, who had never thought before.

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So that can be unsettling when we think of this as happening at a certain contemporaneous moment in the history of thought.

如果把这个问题放在思想史的特定时期来想,它可能是难以解决的。

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So when you see the word "book" in ancient Greek or Latin, they didn't think of this. They thought of scrolls.

当看到古希腊语或拉丁语的书这个字，他们不会想到这个，他们会想到书卷。

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And I think he thought, as you all heard him talk about in the Oval Office on Monday, I think he thought of this as a parent.

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And I think she thought of Paris and the time in Paris in the same way.

NEWYORKER: Naima

At the time Re-think Wireless thought a machine-to-machine infrastructure would be the most likely application area.

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