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西方人食用苹果，也不忘线式切分，然后去核去皮食之。 Westerners eat apples by cutting them linearly into pieces. Chinese people eat apples by peeling them circularly and preserving the round shape. 中国人食用苹果却不忘用环式削皮，保全圆形整体。 Western dissection Chinese synthesis Analytical mode of thinking More logic-oriented (abstraction, precision and clarity) Encyclopedic works Organization of articles: Clear division Western medicine Western cuisine Western painting Apple-eating: cutting Synthetic mode of thinking More image-oriented (imagination, implicitness and fuzziness) 类书, Emperor-centered unity, harmony and correspondence Chinese medicine Chinese cuisine Chinese painting peeling around The linear mode of thinking characterized by analytical reasoning and emphasis on clarity and precision is conducive to theoretical construction. The circular mode of thinking characterized by synthetic insight and stress on fuzziness and implicitness contributes to empirical revelation of truth. 线性思维模式长于分析推理，推崇清晰精确，有利于理论建构；环性思维模式强于综合顿悟，讲求模糊含蓄，有助于体察真谛。 6. Linguistic expression 语言表达 Linear branch-like connection and circular wave-like moving 线枝环波 English: tree-type sentence structure with different parts connected like branches and sub-branches to the trunk line Chinese: topic-prominent sentence structure and wave-like moving of the discourse 西语的线性特点表现为句子结构以直线枝形铺排，由主到次，递相迭加，犹如枝繁叶茂的大树。 汉语的环性特点体现在语段以环状波式流动，浪花无律，形散意合，好似波涛滚滚的大江。 English tree-like sentence structure英语的线性树式句子结构 Trunk line: S + V + (O) 主干线：主语+谓语+（宾语） Branches and sub-branches : Adverbials and attributes 支线及分支线：状语和定语 Hypotactic, connectives 形合语言，连接词语 explicit cohesion 显性联接 Product and facilitator of abstract thinking and formal logic 线性语言是抽象思维和形式逻辑的产物，反过来又促进抽象思维和形式逻辑的发展。 English: linear tree-like sentence structure （线性树式结构） As a nation of gifted people who comprise about one-fourth of the total popu