white bear

基本解釋

In their classic work, they told people to not think about a white bear.
在他們最典型的工作中，他們告訴人們不要想一只白熊。
In the lab, psychologists have people try to banish a thought from their minds — of a white bear, for example — and find that the thought keeps returning, about once a minute.
心理學(xué)家在實(shí)驗(yàn)室中要求人們試著從思想里摒除某個(gè)念頭——例如，一頭白熊——而后發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)念頭會大約每隔一分鐘返回一次。
In the popular example of a white bear or pink elephant, for example, trying not to think about an unusual and concrete object is the surest way to make that image stick in your mind.
例如，在廣為人知的白熊（或粉紅大象）案例里，努力去不想起一個(gè)奇特而具體的想象事物，恰恰會在內(nèi)心里強(qiáng)化該事物的形象。

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.
我真想去爬白樺樹，沿著雪白的樹干，爬上烏黑的樹枝，爬向那天心，直到樹身再支撐不住，樹梢碰著地，把我放下來。
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