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

• She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
  她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• 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。
• But trade is one of the few areas where the world contemplates the new administration with apprehension rather than hope.
  但是，贸易是世人以忧虑（而非希望）的目光注视着新政府的少数几个领域之一。
• At other times, the camera stops and contemplates different characters.
  其他时间，镜头多是停顿及凝视不同的人物。
• 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。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• 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。
• And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
  那在你里面唱歌着、默想着的，仍住在那第一刻在太空散布群星的圈子里。
• 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
• 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。