Contemplate
['kɒntempleɪt;-təm-] or ['kɑntəmplet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) consider as a possibility; 'I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job'.
(verb.) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; 'contemplate one's navel'.
手打:威特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
(v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
(v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
雅克校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Study, ponder, meditate on, dwell on, think about, reflect upon, consider or view attentively, revolve in the mind.[2]. Intend, purpose, design, have in view, have in contemplation, look forward to.
錄入:费尔普斯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Meditate, behold, observe, ponder, study, purpose, design, intend, project
ANT:Ignore, overlook, waive, abandon
校對:诺艾尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to consider or look at attentively: to meditate on or study: to intend.—v.i. to think seriously: to meditate (with on upon).—adj. Contemp′lable.—ns. Contem′plant Contemp′latist; Contemplā′tion continued study of a particular subject: a meditation written or a subject for such.—adj. and n. Contem′plative given to contemplation.—adv. Contem′platively.—ns. Contem′plativeness; Con′templātor one who contemplates: a student.
手打:西尔维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Let them look abroad and contemplate the scenes which were enacting around them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My dear son, you contemplate an absence of a week, I think? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We have nothing but one single dye to contemplate, in order to comprehend one of the most curious operations of the understanding. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Do you contemplate undeceiving Sir Leicester to-night? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- And I understand he is a naturaliSt. Mr. Farebrother, my dear sir, is a man deeply painful to contemplate. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In short, the men contemplate mutiny and murder. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I drew up all the instructions for the contemplated move, and kept them in my pocket until I should hear of the junction of our troops at Jackson. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfieldthe more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Watt’s patents of 1769 and 1784 contemplated the application of his steam engines to carriages running on land. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Why, if Zat Arras even dreamed that I contemplated such a thing he would have my heart cut out of me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I hope we are friends, was the unmoved reply; while he still watched the rising of the moon, which he had been contemplating as I approached. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Madame Defarge, with her arms folded, sat in the morning light and heat, contemplating the wine-shop and the street. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Mr. Bucket looks at him as if his face were a vista of some miles in length and he were leisurely contemplating the same. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Contemplating the reproduction, he seemed to see, for the second time, in the appeal and in the confession of weakness, a little fear. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My guardian stood before me, contemplating the birds, and I had no need to look beyond him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I lighted on you, Mr. Barsad, coming out of the prison of the Conciergerie while I was contemplating the walls, an hour or more ago. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I had no notion that he liked me so very much, said Harriet, contemplating the letter. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Why should a state want a strategic frontier unless it contemplates war? 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You mean, my man, that the crew contemplates mutiny? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- As on the other hand, the facility assists the fancy in a small removal, but takes off from its force when it contemplates any considerable distance. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It is a little document to do so much; and Traddles contemplates it, as it lies upon my desk, half in admiration, half in awe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
校對:南森