| 单词 | muscle reading |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuscle reading muscle reading n. thought-reading by the interpretation of muscular movements. ΚΠ 1877 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 462 Although reasoning deductively from the known relations of mind to body, I had established conclusively to my own mind that the so-called mind-reading was really muscle-reading. 1909 O. Lodge Survival of Man ii. iii. 39 The thought-reading or rather muscle-reading exhibition[s], with actual or partial contact, which at one time were much in vogue. 1937 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 47 491 Communication may be by means of..other factors such as sympathetic understanding, facial interpretation, perhaps muscle reading, or more generally, all instances often spoken of as ‘thought-transference’. < as lemmas |
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