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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• For Rakuten, as it contemplates its international blitz, the answer is to look for markets where infrastructure such as broadband, credit cards and delivery logistics are improving but the market is not yet saturated with established players.
  对于在考虑大举进军海外市场的乐天而言，它的策略应该是寻找那些基础设施正不断完善、但尚未让老牌竞争对手饱和的市场，如宽带、信用卡和物流配送等领域。
• Finally this thesis also contemplates the future outlook for microblogging.
  文章的最后笔者还对微博的未来发展进行了展望。
• Lu Xun deposits the contrast and retrospection of elitist culture and mundane culture, through whose contradiction and intertextuality he contemplates upon the possibility of the modernization and rebirth of the traditional culture.
  鲁迅设置了精英文化与世俗文化的对位和反观，在它们的自身矛盾和互相指涉中完成对传统文化现代化再生之可能性的思考。
• 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。
• 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。