1. When smoked or eaten, it has mild mind-expanding, painkilling, and intoxicating effects. 当抽了或者吃了以后，会有温和的思维膨胀，止痛，和醉人的效果。
2. Among them is Sega Toys in Japan, which makes Brain Trainer, a portable electronic device with various mind-expanding exercises that retails for about $30. 日本的Sega Toys就是一间这样的公司。 它的产品是一种叫做“思维训练师”的便携式电子产品，有各种各样的开拓思维的训练功能，零售价格是30美元。
3. With GDP still shrinking in the third quarter of this year, Mervyn king, the central bank's governor, said he had an "open mind" about expanding the central bank's programme of quantitative easing. 尽管今年第三季度的GDP仍在减少，央行主管Mervyn King称其对央行量化宽松政策的扩展持乐观态度。
4. You’ll not only be expanding your mind, but you’ll also be able to impress your friends and co-workers when you work one of your new words into a conversation. 你将不止扩大你的思想，而且当你在谈话中引入一个新词汇时能够使你的朋友和同事印象深刻。
5. Perhaps most telling of all, Hollywood would give us Forbidden Planet, with Doctor Morbius and his "monsters from the id"— destructive forces released by expanding the capacity of the human mind. 最能说明问题的，是好莱坞给了我们《禁忌星球》，连同莫比厄斯博士及其“来自伊德的那些鬼怪”——扩张人类心灵而放出来的破坏力量。
