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

• 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。
• 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。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
  她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• 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。