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

• 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。
• Viewed from the sense of female literature, women's consciousness means the female taken as the subject of creation, observes and contemplates the female as the abject of creation from the aspect of history and culture in order to seek the way that women gain freedom and.
  女性主义文学意义上的女性意识是指创作主体的女性对创作对象的女性进行历史的、文化的观照和思考，从而寻求女性自由和解放的道路以及与男人共同获救的前途。
• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, as the regime contemplates its future course in the face of any emboldened opposition to emulate the brutality of Syria, or to move tentatively to reforms public encouragement will be needed to take the right path.
  实际上，沙特王室在思考未来的路线是效仿叙利亚的残暴，还是尝试进行改革时，将需要公众的鼓励来选择正确的道路。
• She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
  她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• 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。
• 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
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• She lies on the grass, contemplates the high, blue sky.
  她躺在草地上，凝视著高高的蓝天。