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

• 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
• 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。
• In'A Simple Life,'which held its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week, she contemplates aging based on the true story of the film's producer, Roger Lee.
  许鞍华执导的电影《桃姐》上周在威尼斯电影节首映。在这部影片中，她根据电影制片人李恩霖的真实故事来思考人的衰老经历。
• The United States contemplates a US$ 820 billion stimulus package over two years.
  美国准备在两年内实行一整套金额达8200亿美元的刺激措施。
• 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 yoga main function was contemplates through each kind of bodily posture practice and the language, the mediation, consummated student's nervous system and the endocrine system function.
  瑜伽健身的主要作用是通过各种身体姿势练习和语言冥想，调解、完善学生的神经系统和内分泌系统的功能。
• She lies on the grass, contemplates the high, blue sky.
  她躺在草地上，凝视著高高的蓝天。
• They voted for the resolution, which contemplates sanctions.
  他们投票赞成联合国决议，而该决议是要求实施制裁的。
• And then you have the finished product-the piece of music that is played, or the work of art that somebody contemplates.
  然后，你有了成品演奏的这首乐曲，或者是某人凝视的这幅作品。
• He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe.
  他长时间地盯着这本书，陷入沉思，仿佛现实正在入侵那个无法描述的世界。