英语词汇“to think outside the box”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) outside the box: outside or beyond the realm of normal practice or conventional thinking. Usually in to think outside the box: to think creatively or in an unconventional manner.In quot. 1970 with allusion to a puzzle in which the aim is to connect the nine dots of a square grid with four straight lines drawn continuously; the solution is only possible if some of the lines extend beyond the border of the grid.

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1970 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 2 June 4/3 The problem..is to think ‘outside the dots’ about the questions of how to feed a hungry world.]

1971 Data Managem. Sept. 77 (heading) Think outside the box. If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes [of organization charts], then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed.

1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 14 July 9 We must step back and see if the solutions to our problems lie outside the box.

1984 Fortune 6 Feb. 114/3 He tells his managers to be ‘cross-functional’ and to ‘think outside the box’ of their own specialty.

2016 Courier (Dundee) 2 Jan. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 29/1 You start to think outside the box as far as your future is concerned.

单词	to think outside the box
释义	> as lemmas to think outside the box (a) outside the box: outside or beyond the realm of normal practice or conventional thinking. Usually in to think outside the box: to think creatively or in an unconventional manner.In quot. 1970 with allusion to a puzzle in which the aim is to connect the nine dots of a square grid with four straight lines drawn continuously; the solution is only possible if some of the lines extend beyond the border of the grid. ΚΠ 1970 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 2 June 4/3 The problem..is to think ‘outside the dots’ about the questions of how to feed a hungry world.] 1971 Data Managem. Sept. 77 (heading) Think outside the box. If you have kept your thinking process operating inside the lines and boxes [of organization charts], then you are normal and average, for that is the way your thinking has been programmed. 1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 14 July 9 We must step back and see if the solutions to our problems lie outside the box. 1984 Fortune 6 Feb. 114/3 He tells his managers to be ‘cross-functional’ and to ‘think outside the box’ of their own specialty. 2016 Courier (Dundee) 2 Jan. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 29/1 You start to think outside the box as far as your future is concerned. extracted from boxn.² < as lemmas
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