ruminate

英 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

美 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

v.  沉思; 认真思考

过去式：ruminated　现在分词：ruminating　第三人称单数：ruminates　过去分词：ruminated　

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BNC.22105 / COCA.22163

牛津词典

verb

• 沉思；认真思考
  to think deeply about sth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉思;琢磨;认真考虑
  If youruminate onsomething, you think about it very carefully.
  1. He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life...
     他认真地考虑了美国生活中典型的严重浪费问题。
  2. Obsessional personalities commonly ruminate excessively about death.
     有强迫症的人通常过多地思考死亡的问题。
• VERB （动物）反刍
  When animalsruminate, they bring food back from their stomach into their mouth and chew it again.
  1. He wanted to have a look at the two oxen, both ruminating without raising their eyes.
     他想看看那两头牛，它们都在反刍，眼睛都不抬一下。

英英释义

verb

• reflect deeply on a subject
  1. I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  2. philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  3. The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
  Synonym:chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overspeculate
• chew the cuds
  1. cows ruminate

双语例句

• With some luck, Greece will ruminate in the future about how it stuck to a narrow path in the early 21st century, and found honour and vindication for its labours.
  如果运气好的话，希腊可以在未来冥思在21世纪之初是如何困于狭路，并为自己经历的艰辛找回荣誉，证明这些艰辛都是值得的。
• They discovered that when study participants were asked to ruminate on a stressful incident, their levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of tissue inflammation, rose.
  他们发现，当他们让研究的参与者们反复思考一件让人倍感压力的事情时，参与者体内的C反应蛋白水平会上升。C反应蛋白是人体组织炎症的一个标记。
• And reflection can turn ugly, as when we ruminate about some past insult or error.
  当我们纠结于过去的一些侮辱或错误时，反思可能并非好事。
• And the more we ruminate about a secret, the more we want to reveal it.
  对某个秘密考虑得越多，就越想公开这个秘密。
• Donahoe then begins to ruminate on his eight years at eBay ( eBay), five of them as CEO.
  随后，多纳霍开始回顾自己在eBay度过的八年职业生涯，其中五年他都担任首席执行官一职。
• The results showed that the introduced goats intake feeds and walk in daytime, ruminate, sleep, stand and lie down at night.
  研究结果表明，采食和游走行为发生在白天，反刍、睡眠、站立和躺卧多在夜间。
• Those who have a definite goal and do not need time to ruminate and explore will find little to complain about on a one-year course.
  那些有明确的目标、不需要时间来琢磨和思考的人会发现，一年制课程没有什么可抱怨的。
• Straw was the main by-product of crops and it was the important feed resource of the ruminate animal.
  秸秆是农作物的主要副产品，又是牛、羊等反刍动物的重要饲料资源。
• They also tend to brood or ruminate more than satisficers do.
  他们也比满足化者容易陷入忧思。
• Don't ruminate about worst-case scenarios.
  不要反复考虑最坏的情况。