| 释义 |
contemplativecon‧tem‧pla‧tive1 /kənˈtemplətɪv, ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪv $ kən-, ˈkɑːntem-/ adjective   - History, the extension of human memory through time, is a contemplative luxury of advanced civilizations.
- The mood is contemplative and cool, even introspective; associations are immediately religious.
- They are all from the contemplative, strict and enclosed Order of the Carmelite in Darlington and are repeating history.
- This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition.
- Unlike the contemplative Hawthorne, Dickens could not wait to see the Falls.
- Woosnam and Olazabal have been in more contemplative mood after further moderate performances in New Orleans.
- Yo mumbles to herself at the windows outlining her hairline with a contemplative index finger.
NOUN► life· In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.· This state is the goal of the contemplative life, if not here, then certainly after death.· But this is the mistake of ignorance, because they do not know what the contemplative life stands for.· Again, the evidence of wills indicates increased lay interest in the literature of the contemplative life.· The bookish, the contemplative life.· It will cease with time, whereas contemplative life may be begun in time, but it will be perfected beyond it.· This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition. spending a lot of time thinking seriously and quietly → reflective:  a contemplative mood—contemplatively adverb |