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1. The muscles
肌肉
2. Some psychologists maintain that mental acts
such as thinking are not performed in the brain
alone。
一些心理学家认为脑力活动比如思考并不单 是由大脑完成的。
3. but that one's muscles also participated.
肌肉也参与其中。
4. It may be said that we think with our muscles
in somewhat the same way that we listen to music
with our bodies.
可以这样说，用肌肉思考在某种程度上和用 身体聆听音乐是相似的。
5. You surely are not surprised to be told that
you usually listen to music not only with your
ears but with your whole body.
如果别人对你说，你不仅用耳朵而且用整个 身体倾听音乐，你一定不会感到惊讶。
6. Few People can listen to music that is more
or less familiar without moving their body or,
more specifically, some part of their body.
听到熟悉的音乐时，很多人都是手舞足蹈， 或者至少身体的某些部位会动。
7. Often when one listens to a symphonic concert
on the radio,
通常听广播交响音乐会时，
8. he is tempted to direct the orchestra even
though he knows there is a competent conductor
on the job.
人们会试图指导乐团，即使知道台上有一个 优秀的指挥。
9. Strange as this behavior may be, there is
a very good reason for it.
尽管这种行为很奇怪，但是有一个很充分的 理由。
10. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment
from music unless he participates, so to speak,
in its performance.
这样说吧，如果一个人不参与到表演中来是 无法获得音乐享受的。
11. The listener "feels" himself into the music
with more or less pronounced motions of his body.
听众以或多或少的身体行为“感觉”自己融 入到了音乐中。
12. The muscles of the body actually participate
in the mental process of thinking in the same
way,
事实上，身体的肌肉也以同样的方式参与了 脑力活动，
13. but this participation is less obvious because
it is less pronounced.
但是因为这种参与不是很明确，因此也就不 太明显。
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