单词	musing
释义	musemuse1 /mjuːz/ verb Word Origin WORD ORIGINmuse1 Origin: 1300-1400 Old French muser, from muse ‘mouth of an animal’; ➔ MUZZLE1 Verb Table VERB TABLE muse Simple Form Present I, you, we, they muse he, she, it muses Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they mused Present perfect I, you, we, they have mused he, she, it has mused Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had mused Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will muse Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have mused Continuous Form Present I am musing he, she, it is musing you, we, they are musing Past I, he, she, it was musing you, we, they were musing Present perfect I, you, we, they have been musing he, she, it has been musing Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been musing Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be musing Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been musing Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES "I wonder why she was killed," mused Poirot. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A number of key executives mused aloud on the prospect of early retirement. How different things seem with a little light on the subject, I mused. Otherwise, Shamlou mused, he resembled a photographic negative. Perhaps, mused the pundits, he is needed now - at the very top. Repeating the title, we muse over what the book will probably be about. Three cheers for Nantucket, he muses, and the Devil do what he will with me. What a doleful and mocking funeral, Ishmael muses. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► on · I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side. ► over · He mused over it, thinking about Blackbeard's sweat and his icy rage.· Repeating the title, we muse over what the book will probably be about.· As he walked towards the towering ship, he mused over his good fortune.· Though each portrait was essentially a straight forward head-shot, we are given far more to muse over than a strange face. 1[transitive] to say something in a way that shows you are thinking about it carefully:  ‘Somewhere,’ he mused, ‘I’ve heard your name before.’2[intransitive] to think about something for a long time SYN  pondermuse on/over/about/upon He mused on how different his life would have been, had he not met Louisa.—musing noun [countable, uncountable]:  her gloomy musings—musingly adverb
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