| 单词 | thought bubble | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought bubble   thought bubble  n. 		 (a) U.S. an isolated, unconnected, or unrelated thought or idea;		 (b) (in a cartoon or other illustration) a shape resembling a cloud or balloon connected to a character by a chain of increasingly smaller circles, and enclosing text that is intended to represent the character's thoughts; also figurative; cf. thinks balloon n. at think v.2 Compounds. ΚΠ 1906    Independent 		(N.Y.)	 19 Apr. 898/1  				At all events he seeks safety in closing his shell as tightly as possible..and..emits occasional thought bubbles from his inner consciousness. 1917    Mrs. W. Woodrow Hornet's Nest vii. 92  				Ah, these brilliant, iridescent thought-bubbles of a morphia-maniac. 1942    Wisconsin State Jrnl. 6 Mar. 12/4  				‘It was only a thought bubble,’ Hibbard told The State Journal, and no definite move in that direction has been made. 1944    Lock Haven 		(Pa.)	 Express 23 Dec. 3/2 		(caption)	  				The wording in the sailor's ‘thought bubble’ is: ‘Just for a sight of Lock Haven.’ 1964    Oakland 		(Calif.)	 Tribune 27 Feb.  d26/4  				[In a comic book] Ed ponders..for a moment in little thought bubbles that come out of his head. 1996    P. Mitchell Acquiring Conception of Mind iii. 46  				[They] circumvented the problem of thoughts being invisible by..presenting them to children visually encapsulated within thought bubbles. 2003    J. R. Lennon Mailman  i. iii. 154  				You could see the thought bubbles forming over his head, filled with self-satisfied Gallic thoughts. < as lemmas  | 
	
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