英语释义

• look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought;

  "contemplate one's navel"

• reflect deeply on a subject;

  "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"

  "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"

  "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

• think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes;

  "He is meditating in his study"

• consider as a possibility;

  "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

片语

to contemplate盘算

puzzle谜，智力游戏；拼版玩具；不解之谜；谜一样的人或事物

music contemplate乐思

accordingly contemplate随观

contemplate thinking想心思

contemplate on沉思

watch观察；注视；看守；警戒

behold瞧；看呀

英汉例句

• many of us take it as an opportunity to set goals, contemplate decisions, and renew commitments.

  我们中的许多人把这作为制定目标，审视决策和更新委托的机会。

• if it were essential on the stage to love as people really love, to employ that irreplaceable voice of the heart, to look as people contemplate in life, our speech would be in code.

  如果舞台上必须要有现实中的爱情、要运用心灵的不可替代之声、或看似如同生活中的人们一样沉思，那么我们的语言就是这口令。

• it is thus with a certain wistfulness that some south africans contemplate a post-mandela era.

  因而一些南非人开始忧虑和沉思一个后曼德拉时期。

• so it is with britain and france, once europe’s greatest imperial powers, as they contemplate how to cling on to a world role in the face of budget cuts.

  英国与法国目前的处境就是如此。这两个国家曾是欧洲最强大的帝国，而眼下面对本国预算削减的现实他们正在冥思苦想如何保住世界大国这一角色的良策。

• then after a minute or two of doing that, contemplate your life, and how you’d like it to be.

  在接下来的一两分钟里，审视下自己的生活，你希望它怎样发展。

• take a moment to contemplate the exquisite level of precision required to pull this off, if we think about the loop as 「starting」 at one point.

  如果我们将这个循环看作在某一点上「开始」，那么就来考虑一下精确实现循环需要达到的具体标準。

• its ability to even contemplate providing care to all those who need it, however, rests on the success of its past prevention efforts.

  然而，即使是它试图为所有需要的人提供医疗服务的想法本身也取决于它以往预防工作的成功。

• but mistakes occur in times of stress. that is why some are beginning to contemplate the unthinkable.

  但是，错误产生于压力，这就是为什么一些成员国开始考虑不可能发生的事情了。

• so it is with britain and france, once europe「s greatest imperial powers, as they contemplate how to cling on to a world role in the face of budget cuts.

  这两个国家曾是欧洲最强大的帝国，而眼下面对本国预算削减的现实他们正在冥思苦想如何保住世界大国这一角色的良策。

• after that we can contemplate something that matters, like a haircut.

  之后，我们可以考虑一些确实重要的事，比如剪个新发型。

• it could not contemplate anything like the transfers that america’s federal system allows.

  它不能打算任何事像美国联邦系统允许的那样转移。

• art requires you to spend some time with it, to contemplate and think, leave and return.

  艺术要求你在作品面前花费时间，沉思并想象，走开再回来。

• many french have refused to contemplate giving up the long-held tradition that sunday is for family, long lunches and afternoon strolls, even if it means earning less money.

  许多法国人拒绝考虑放弃其长期坚持的传统---周日应与家人共度，与家人共进午餐，下午陪家人散步，即使这意味着挣不到钱。

• but in the end he did not need to contemplate exercising a veto because barclays saw lehman as too hot to handle.

  但最后他已毋须思忖行使否决权了，因为后来巴克莱觉得雷曼是个烫手的山芋，不想接手了。

• they contemplate trouble in obtaining hotel reservation.

  他们估计在预订旅馆房间方面恐怕有问题。

• i contemplate the board, trying to find a way to take her knight or move my bishop.

  我仔细凝视着棋盘，试着找到一种方法去拿走她的爵士或者移动我的主教。

• people don」t usually contemplate two women living together, that they are into each other. good for us.

  人们通常不会想到住在一起的两个女人互相喜欢对方，对我们来说是好事。

• so investors in breweries are licking their lips as they contemplate a fresh round of takeovers.

  所以啤酒业的投资者会在思考新的一轮接收时咂咂嘴唇。

• in contrast to aquatic life, land-based animals, whose vision-based sensory field extends for hundreds of meters, have time to contemplate a variety of actions and pick the best one.

  和水生动物不同，陆生动物的感官场建立在视觉的基础上，可以延展好几百米远，因此它们有时间考虑各种行动并选择最好的一种。

• the fascinating physics of foams offers much to contemplate as you shower before heading off to the bar.

  在你去就酒吧前沖凉时，泡沫的美妙物理足够你好好冥思苦想一阵了。

• so what does this mean for how we should contemplate our next big decision?

  那么，对于我们的所作出得下一个决定性地的决策而言，这意味着什么呢？

• but as pressure on israel to pull out mounts, some palestinians and some jewish settlers have begun to contemplate what the future might hold, if and when the army leaves.

  但是随着以色列撤军压力的增加，一些巴勒斯坦人和犹太定居者已经开始思忖：未来会怎样，军队是否以及何时会撤离。

• when we have free gaps of time, the lure of the internet, television, the refrigerator, or text messaging seem to fill this time before we even contemplate what we are doing.

  在认真思考自己正在做些什么之前，我们总是难以抗拒上网、看电视、喝冷饮或收发短信的诱惑，空余时间似乎已被这些东西塞得满满的。

• as we contemplate the great number of people who have died in this tragedy, we may feel very strongly that we ourselves, in some part or manner, also have died.

  当我们在考虑有多少人在灾难中遇难的时候，我们可能强烈的感受到我们自己在某些部分或方式上也已经死亡。

• in contrast, 2010 may be the year of the exit strategies, in which investors have to contemplate what economic (and market) fundamentals look like without massive government support.

  相比之下，2010可能将是政策退场的一年，这一年，投资者不得不深思没有大量的政府援助的经济基本面和市场是怎样的。

• to be more realistic, we should contemplate a full interface which has many more methods, such as those for listing and deleting line items.

  更现实一些，我们应该考虑那些具有更多方法的完整接口，如用于列出和删除行式项目的方法。

相似词

reflect反射，映现；深思

study学习；考虑；攻读；细察

ponder考虑；沉思

think想；认为

deliberate仔细考虑；商议

consider考虑；认为；细想

intend有打算

expect期待；预期

plan计划；设计；打算

speculate推断

canvass拉选票，征求意见；讨论；细查

observe观察；说；注意到；评论

expect期待；预期

scrutinize仔细或彻底检查

intend有打算

reflect反射，映现；深思

consider考虑；认为；细想

meditate冥想；沉思

ponder考虑；沉思

think想；认为

inspect进行检查；进行视察

envisage设想，想像；正视，面对

entertain款待

study学习；考虑；攻读；细察

deliberate仔细考虑；商议

survey调查；测量；审视；纵览

muse沉思；冥想

brood一窝鸟，一窝动物；一大家孩子；幼蜂；一类（事物），一伙（人）

plan计划；设计；打算