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

• 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。
• 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
• She lies on the grass, contemplates the high, blue sky.
  她躺在草地上，凝视著高高的蓝天。
• 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。
• 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。
• The life boundary contemplates the variability and the solemn and sadness of life and its destiny.
  生命境界感悟命运人生的无常、庄严、感伤；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。