念头

Don't you at least feel some obligation to pay the piper a little?

难道你就没一丁点回馈给予者的念头？

My mother started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949, two years before I was born.

母亲在1949年我出世前两年，就开始有办个旧金山喜福会的念头的。

She wrote to her, therefore, kindly, but decisively, to beg that she would not, at present, come to hartfield; acknowledging it to be her conviction, that all farther confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided; and hoping, that if a few days were allowed to pass before they met again, except in the company of others - she objected only to a tete-a-tete - they might be able to act as if they had forgotten the conversation of yesterday.

但是她却没有证据来消除哈丽埃特的念头，聊起来只能气恼，因此她就以一种亲热而又坚定的口气写了封信。告诉她暂时不要来哈特菲尔德，讲了她的想法。认为还是别接着费心思去议论一个问题，以后再到一起时。除非有其他人在场，否则她是不赞同，那么他们便能够忘却昨天的议论了，哈丽埃特听从了她的意见。

Tools and fire, we are still prey in the eyes of Mother Nature.

对我们所有的工具和火的可怕念头，在自然母亲眼里我们始终是猎物。

The secret is not to "think" about the thoughts but to allow them to flow through your mind,while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.

其中的诀窍就是不要去&想&念头，让它流贯心头，保持心的自由和开放。

Generally , youth is like the first cogitations , not so wise as the second .

一般说来，青年如朝阳，不像中午的太阳那样强烈；青年如即兴的念头，不像深思熟虑那样明智。

Obsessions and compulsions often develop in people who live stressful lives.

生活在重重压力下的人常常会产生执著的念头和强烈的欲望。

B. At some point during the course of the disorder, the person has recognized that the obsessions or compulsions are excessive or unreasonable.

强迫症发生的时候，你意识到这种强迫的念头、强迫的行为过分了，没有理由这样做嘛。

T: When something comes up that seems to bring you pain, emotional or physical pain,something that makes you uncomfortable, something appears to be disruptive or conflictual, then you'll know that there is a thought in your mind that is making that seem to happen.

汤姆：：如果你发现有些事物会带给你痛苦，不论是情感或身体的痛苦，有些事物会让你感到不自在，有些事物又似乎充满了冲突和破坏性，你就会知道在你心中有个念头正促使这些事情好像真的发生了。

Part of me almost wanted to lose the appeal so that I could go to court, get all the documents and depositions released, and show the public what my adversaries had been up to.

我心中甚至有想输掉上诉的念头，这样我就可以在法庭上公开所有的文件和宣誓证词，让公众看一看我的对手的目的到底是什么。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。