1. In nonverbal communication terminology, physical contact and the study of touching are generally referred to as haptics. 在非语言交流术语中，身体接触和对触碰的研究通常被称为触觉学。
2. Nonverbal thinking, a central mechanism in engineering design, involves perceptions, the stock-in-trade of the artist, not the scientist. 非语言思维是工程设计中的一个核心机制，它涉及的是感知，是艺术家的惯用手法，而不是科学家。
3. In designing a diesel engine, a technologist might impress individual ways of nonverbal thinking on the machine by continually using an intuitive sense of rightness and fitness. 在设计柴油发动机时，技术专家可能会通过持续使用正确和合适的直觉来给机器留下非语言思维方式的印象。
4. Many features and qualities of the objects that a technologist thinks about cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in the mind by a visual, nonverbal process. 技术专家所思考的对象的许多特征和质量不能简化为明确的语言描述；它们在大脑中通过视觉及非语言的过程处理。
5. In the United States, however, bowing or any type of submissive body posture is particularly irritating, for it tends to connote undue formality, aristocracy, and a nonverbal denial of egalitarianism. 然而，在美国，鞠躬或任何形式的顺从的身体姿势都特别令人恼火，因为它往往意味着不适当的礼节、贵族作风和对平等主义的非语言否认。
