white bear

基本解释

In their classic work, they told people to not think about a white bear.
在他们最典型的工作中，他们告诉人们不要想一只白熊。
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.
心理学家在实验室中要求人们试着从思想里摒除某个念头——例如，一头白熊——而后发现这个念头会大约每隔一分钟返回一次。
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，在广为人知的白熊（或粉红大象）案例里，努力去不想起一个奇特而具体的想象事物，恰恰会在内心里强化该事物的形象。

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.
我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。
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