contemplates

英 [ˈkɒntəmpleɪts]

美 [ˈkɑːntəmpleɪts]

v.  考虑; 思量; 思忖; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑; 沉思; 苦思冥想
contemplate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 考虑;思量;思忖
  If youcontemplatean action, you think about whether to do it or not.
  1. For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor...
     有段时间，他考虑去当军医。
  2. She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
     她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• VERB 深思熟虑;沉思;苦思冥想
  If youcontemplatean idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time.
  1. As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future...
     那天晚上，他躺在医院的病床上，想到未来，他哭了起来。
  2. That makes it difficult to contemplate the idea that the present policy may not be sustainable.
     那让人难以认真思考这个可能，即目前的政策也许并不能持续下去。
• VERB 凝视;注视
  If youcontemplatesomething or someone, you look at them for a long time.
  1. He contemplated his hands, still frowning.
     他盯着自己的双手，眉头紧锁。

双语例句

• In classroom final, teacher can move darkly the classroom light, music is gentle, everybody either lies down or the seat, closes both eyes to enter contemplates the condition.
  在课堂的最后，老师会把教室的灯光调暗，音乐更柔和，大家或躺或坐，闭上双眼进入冥想状态。
• Viewed from the sense of female literature, women's consciousness means the female taken as the subject of creation, observes and contemplates the female as the abject of creation from the aspect of history and culture in order to seek the way that women gain freedom and.
  女性主义文学意义上的女性意识是指创作主体的女性对创作对象的女性进行历史的、文化的观照和思考，从而寻求女性自由和解放的道路以及与男人共同获救的前途。
• Whenever a man exclaims that all mankind are villains, be assured that he contemplates an instant offers of himself as an exception.
  每当一个人宣称所有人类都是坏蛋之时，你尽可放心好了，在这当儿他是打算把自己作为例外推出台的。
• The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
  心地正直的人在睡眠中也在景仰那神秘的天空。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• Beauty in things exists in the mind, which contemplates them.& Hume
  事物的美存于细心观察它的人的意念中。&休谟
• As the advanced world contemplates another year of disappointment, the engine of the global economy has moved ever more decisively to large emerging economies.
  在发达世界考虑面对又一个失望之年的时候，全球经济引擎越来越决定性地转向大型新兴经济体。
• At a number of points in the play, he contemplates his own death and even the option of suicide.
  在剧中的很多时候，他都在思考自己的死亡甚至是要选择自杀。
• Based on analyzing the modern Chinese classical short stories, the auther contemplates a few theoretic problems as follows.
  论文在分析了一批中国现代经典短篇小说的基础上，思考了几个理论问题。
• Those artsy types at the Rhode Island School of Design can put down their paintbrushes and take "The Art of Sin and the Sin of Art", which contemplates the relationship between sin and the art world.
  罗德岛设计学院那些有艺术家气质之学生可以放下画笔，选修“罪之艺术和艺术之罪”这门课。该课程对罪孽和艺术世界之关系进行思考。