Let's take a concrete example. When faced with stress, people generally have one of four reactions: placating, blaming, ignoring (treating the stress as irrelevant), or being super-rational. In my workshops, I have noticed that Chinese can understand the "placating" stance easily.
具體舉例說來，在由已故的美國家庭治療學者維吉尼亞．薩堤爾發展出來的理論中，觀察到人們面對壓力時，大致會有四種因應模式：討好、指責、打岔、超理智。