Sure, you can do your reflecting in the shower or during a boring meeting or on an invigorating run. But grand thinking requires grand amounts of time.

当然，你可以在洗澡，或一次枯燥无味的会议，或是热身跑中思索。

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Visual thinking has enabled Grand to build entire systems in her imagination, which works similarly to a computer program because it can produce three-dimensional design simulations.

视觉思维使格兰德能够在她的想象中构建整个系统，这与计算机程序的工作原理类似，因为它可以产生三维设计模拟。

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Will Mr Lansley’s grand design end up as yet another distracting reorganisation, or is he thinking along the right lines?

兰斯利先生的宏伟计划最终会不会变成又一场令人困惑不已的机构改组？ 换句话说，兰斯利先生有没有沿着正轨考虑问题？

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OK, in Silicon Valley, such grand thinking is pretty normal.

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Mr Cook's move had little to do with grand strategic thinking: it was a pre-emptive bid to silence Eurosceptics in London, and also part of a broader Franco-British game in which his country will be struggling to preserve its veto in areas that others think should be subject to decisions by a majority of votes.

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But it does suggest that, if we want to see a resurgence in big thinking and grand invention, if we want to promote breakthroughs that will improve not only our own lives but those of our grandchildren, we need to enlarge our aspirations.

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