The abacus was a great invention in ancient China.

Influence of mental abacus calculation practice on mental arithmetic in children: a fMRI study

珠心算加法练习对儿童心算影响的fMRI研究

The Effects of Training for Abacus Mental Calculation on Children's Self-regulation Ability

珠心算训练对儿童自我调节能力的影响

Counting Rod, Abacus and Computer Technology of micro-rod machining

算筹、算盘与计算机

They also learned to use the abacus.

他们还学习珠算。

People find that using an abacus can improve thinking and practical abilities in addition to providing convenient calculation.

人们在使用过程中发现，使用算盘，除了运算方便以外，还有锻炼思维能力和动手能力的作用。

The Promotion of Teaching in the Calculation By Abacus from the Self Consciousness

从自我意识着手促进珠算教学

View on the development and value of reckoning by the abacus Prom Chinese ancient mathematical mechanization

从中国古算机械化特征看珠算的发展及其价值

In English we called it an abacus.

在英语中，我们称之为算盘。

In English, we call it an abacus.

在英语里面，我们称作“算盘”。

The results showed that ⑴ the performance of mental abacus subjects was much better than of normal subjects.

结果表明，⑴珠心算组儿童的心算成绩明显优于普通组儿童。

These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues. 

当顾客们常常受一系列精心设计的日常暗示的影响而不假思索地吃零食或擦拭柜台时，他们的这些习惯已经为公司赚取了数十亿美元。 

Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers. 

过去的十年里,许多公司完善了在消费者中培养自动行为（习惯）的艺术。 

This is where developing new habits comes in.

这就是培养新习惯的意义所在。

Instead, the new habits we deliberately press into ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.

相反，我们有意识培养的新习惯会在脑海中行成相似的思维路径，它们能绕开那些原来的道路。

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay.

但不必费力戒除旧习惯;这些惯有程序一旦植入脑海，便会根深蒂固。

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

但大脑研究人员发现，当我们有意识地培养新习惯时，就会在大脑中形成相应的（神经）通路，甚至创造出全新的脑细胞，这可以使我们的思维跳跃到新的创新轨道。

So it seems paradoxical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

所以，将习惯同创造力和创新在同一语境下进行讨论似乎是自相矛盾的。

“Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century.

19世纪时，威廉·华兹华斯曾说过，“是习惯，而不是选择，在支配那些不善于思考的人。”

Habits are a funny thing.

习惯是个非常有趣的东西。

He has an endearing habit of licking his lips when he's nervous...

他有个一紧张就舔嘴唇的可爱习惯。