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

• Indeed, as the regime contemplates its future course in the face of any emboldened opposition to emulate the brutality of Syria, or to move tentatively to reforms public encouragement will be needed to take the right path.
  实际上，沙特王室在思考未来的路线是效仿叙利亚的残暴，还是尝试进行改革时，将需要公众的鼓励来选择正确的道路。
• 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。
• Susan contemplates a life with Karl had she not left him; Bree considers life without Orson;
  苏珊设想与卡尔生活了，她没有离开他，布雷认为没有奥森生活；
• 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
• 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。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• She lies on the grass, contemplates the high, blue sky.
  她躺在草地上，凝视著高高的蓝天。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。