Sarah made a mental note to ask Janine about it later.
萨拉心里记着一会儿要向雅尼娜问问这事。
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make a mental note• I let the subjectpass and made a mental note for myself.• I let the remark pass, but made a mental note for myself.• Child circled the classroom, making mental notes of good or negativeparenting behavior he would discuss with the adults later.• He made a mental note of the byline above the Globearticles, Frank Dougherty, then sifted through the newspaperphotographs.• He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars.• The student should look out for them and make a mental note of their fascinating and beautiful effect.• Just make a mental note of what is around.• As he came in, I made a mental note of where he put the keys.• I said nothing to Liz, but made a mental note to ask her sister about it later.• He made a mental note to buy another chair.• He made a mental note to call her and arrange a time to meet, away from her parents.• She made a mental note to call Marcia when she got home.
4mental blockFORGETUNDERSTANDa difficulty in remembering something or in understanding something 心理阻隔;记忆阻隔;思维阻隔
I got a complete mental block as soon as the interviewer asked me a question.
面试官刚问了我一个问题,我的脑子就出现一片空白。
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mental block• With the uh, mental block.• She developed a completemental block against her pregnancy, and concealed it until four days before she went into labour.• Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further.• Most of the blocksmentioned here are at the physical level, but the emotional and mental blocks are equally important.• Springfocus: 2BChuck Knoblauch claims he received help during the offseason with his mental block on routinethrows.• Their mocking faces caused a mental block - or a block somewhere else.
go mental• We're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audiencegoing mental.• Back home, the missus is going mental and your dinner's in the dustbin.
6[not before noun]British EnglishBrE informalCRAZY thinking or behaving in a way that seems crazy or strange 〔思维或行为〕疯癫的,不正常的
mental picture/image• Slowly, the process converges on a piece of art that is an expression of the user's own mental image.• Somewhere between the event and the sentence is a mental picture.• Visualization / Imagery-This techniquecombinesrelaxationexercises with the creation of mental images.• Lydecker says she can tune in to animals' mental images and feel their emotional and physical sensations.• They learn to let words create a mental picture and to then make a replica of their vision.• She had an acutemental picture of him.• Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton.• This is in order to provide the reader with a mental picture of the house as the technicaloptions are discussed.
Originmental
(1400-1500)FrenchLate Latinmentalis, from Latinmens“mind”