Many people agree that learning to speak a new language is a powerful way to give the mind a stretch.

许多人同意学习一门新语言是使思想延伸的一种有力途径。

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From almost nothing - a little paint, a stretch of cloth, a freed-up mind and an unembarrassed heart - he made this.

几乎一无所有，仅用一点颜料，一块画布，一个摆脱束缚的精神，一颗不再矫饰的心，他创作了这些作品。

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What better way to stretch your mind than by completely immersing yourself in another culture?

还有比让自己完全沉浸在另一种文化中更能开拓视野的方法吗？

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Divergence is an expansive process, with the idea being to stretch the mind in order to come up with new ideas.

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Before you chalk that up to being based on the wrong continent (beleaguered Europe) keep in mind that over the same stretch a Euro stock index is up more than 8%.

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Though it may seem a stretch to suggest that the mind of a dreamer could be read in this way, it is not.

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