soul-searching

英 [ˈsəʊl sɜːtʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈsoʊl sɜːrtʃɪŋ]

n.  反省; 内省

牛津词典

noun

• 反省；内省
  the careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, for example in order to reach the correct decision or solution to sth

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自我剖析；深刻反省
  Soul-searchingis a long and careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, especially when you are trying to make a difficult moral decision or thinking about something that has gone wrong.
  1. My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
     这一年来，我真的进行了许多深刻的反思，努力地找出自己的生活中到底哪里出了问题。

英英释义

noun

• a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
  Synonym:self-analysis

双语例句

• There has been some self-examination and soul-searching within the economics profession since the onset of the financial crisis.
  自金融危机爆发以来，经济学界内部进行了一些自我审查和反省。
• And I was soul-searching, I was like, why is she suddenly gone, and there are fleas here?
  我搜肠刮肚的想，她怎么能突然没了呢，跳蚤们却还在这儿。
• Put your time and energy into travel, philosophy, and soul-searching.
  将你的时间与精力放在旅行，哲学，和反省中。
• Status Offline Today, under Kegan and Lahey's guidance, our group begins to engage in some supervised soul-searching.
  如今，在Kegan和Lahey的指导下，我们这个小组开始了指导下的心灵探索。
• And when I did some serious soul-searching.
  当我严肃地自我反省。
• The complaint was about the ordinary telephone, television and even back gardens, which, in the 20th century, provoked the sort of soul-searching we are seeing today.
  这番抱怨针对的是寻常的电话、电视机乃至后花园，在20世纪，这些事物激起了与我们今日一样的反思。
• After many hours of soul-searching, he decided to admit his guilt.
  反思了好多小时后，他决定承认自己的罪行。
• After days of soul-searching he finally came to the decision to leave home.
  他经过几天的反躬自问，最终决定离家而去。
• Apart from its ritual function of saying farewell to college life, a graduation trip now also serves as a form of escapism and soul-searching for graduates.
  除了作为告别大学生活的仪式外，如今的毕业旅行也成了毕业生逃离现实追寻自我的途径之一。
• This isn't the first time that China has done some soul-searching about familial love last year China Daily asked a cross-section of people if they said 'I love you' to their parents, spouses, and children.
  这不是中国第一次做关于亲情方面的自省去年《中国日报》就各个阶层的人进行了采访，询问他们是否对父母、爱人和孩子说过我爱你。