Luckily, I'm full of energy today, so mental gymnastics won't be a problem!

好在我今天精力充沛，苦想没问题！

" Charlie thinks I'm sneaking out." " Oh." He contemplated that.

“查理认为我打算偷溜出去。”“哦。”他苦想着。

Kim's program, which has a spiritual undertone, is a mix of martial arts, meditation and gardening.

金东的项目带有精神修养的基调，包含了武术、和园艺。

To get a good score in a maths exam, you need to be good at mental gymnastics!

要想在数学考试中取得好成绩，你需要擅长苦想！

They plan to add an event space for 4,000 people, a bookstore and a peaceful place to think quietly.

他们计划增加一处可以容纳4000人的活动场地，一家书店和一处安静的场所。

He thinks he's going to be able to cope with the isolation well by relying on the power of meditation.

他相信自己轻度过期，凝神给他足够的力量。

I thought long and hard about whether or not to include a detailed section on grammar in this little book.

我苦想了很久要不要在这本小书里放一章来详细地谈谈语法。

This plan is too complicated, and I'm too tired for the kind of mental gymnastics I'd need to work it out.

这个计划太复杂了，我太累了，没办法苦想把它给做出来。

I spent weeks trying to figure out what to get you! Weeks!

我花了好几个星期苦想不知道给你买什么礼物！ 好几个星期！

When people try to justify saying something that they don't really believe – we can say that they are doing mental gymnastics.

当人们试图为一些他们并不真正相信的话辩护时，我们可以说他们在苦想耗尽心力。

Contemplation is his joy and he achieves it through a fantastically demanding discipline, the accomplishment of which is itself a joy within him.

是他的快乐所在，他 通过要求极高的修行获得快乐，这种修行的完成本身便是他内心的快乐。

If you know what the subject of your sentence is, you can then create sentences without um (ing) and ah (ing) or hesitating and looking for words.

如果你知道句子的主语，你就可以构建句子，不用迟疑，苦想。

She would have been seen essentially by priests or monks from a privileged elite-so in fact relatively few would actually have been able to meditate on her image.

她的金身基本只有上层社会的僧侣才看到，因此只有极少数人对着她的形象。

So when I tell my children not to use their phone so much, it takes some serious mental gymnastics to justify why it's still OK for me to use my phone so much.

所以当我告诉我的孩子们不要太频繁地使用手机时，我需要深深地苦想，来证明我为什么仍然可以经常使用手机。

John Paulson made billions predicting the bursting of America's housing bubble; James Chanos, a short-seller, disrobed Enron; and Ray Dalio, the boss of Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, makes a killing for his investors and keeps calm doing transcendental meditation.

约翰•保尔森因预测到美国房地产泡沫而赚了几十亿美元；卖空家James Chanos剥光了安然公司；世界上最大的对冲基金Bridgewater总裁Ray Dalio，为其投资者抓住猎杀机会而通过竟作来保持冷静。