In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbal thinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.

在西方科技的发展中，非语言思维大体上固定了我们物质环境的轮廓，并填充了细节。

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If you think that not thinking is the same as having a blank mind, then you're making the error of equating "the mind" with "thinking" and specifically with verbal thinking, or inner self-talk.

如果你认为不思考就等同于空白的心，那么你犯了错误，你在把“心灵”和“想法”，特别是口头的想法、或内心的自白划上等号。

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Paul Samuelson created modern economics, in that he brought rigorous thinking to a field that had relied on mostly verbal and graphical analysis up to his time.

保罗·萨缪尔森把严密的思维带进了一个以前主要依赖于文字与图表分析的领域，从这个意义上说，是他建立了现代经济学。

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Pupils at schools where the arts were integrated into the curriculum showed stronger performance in maths, English, critical thinking and verbal skills, he added.

BBC: 'Keep arts at heart of curriculum' says Nicholas Serota

Even those who feel that Hugh Wheeler's slightly vulgar book coarsens "Smiles of a Summer Night, " the Ingmar Bergman film on which the show is based, will likely come away thinking that all you need do to purge the show of its occasional verbal excesses is to perform it with the subtlety that is the hallmark of this production.

WSJ: A Little Night Music | Writers' Theatre | A 'Night' to Remember | Theater Review by Terry Teachout