Contemplative
[kən'templətɪv] or [kən'tɛmplətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.
(a.) Having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.
(n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
錄入:弗农
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Thoughtful, studious, given to contemplation.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Mr. Weller was in a very abstracted and contemplative mood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- When you come home you sit down in a sober, contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind, and apply yourself to your books or your business. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was dull, certainly; not to say dreary; but a contemplative man can always employ himself in meditation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- If he looks out through the glass, the boldest boy (Steerforth excepted) stops in the middle of a shout or yell, and becomes contemplative. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- But this contemplative attitude is aesthetic, not intellectual. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As her father's boat grounded, they became contemplative of the mud, and dispersed themselves. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Submissive and contemplative yourself, you like the stern and the practical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Sylvie watched the mood contemplative; its stillness irked her; she whined and jumped to break it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Like all essentially contemplative men, the world has to be reflected in the medium of his intellect before he can grapple with it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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