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 the black and white drawing above, a youth gravely contemplates a narrow winding path heading into a forest.
  在上面黑白的图画中，一个年轻人严肃地凝望着前方蜿蜒曲折通向森林的小路。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He dragged himself towards the child's body, and examined it as a lioness contemplates its dead cub.
  他向孩子的尸体爬过去，象一只母狮看着它死掉的小狮子一样。
• 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。