| 单词 | consider |
| 释义 | con·sid·er transitive verb 1. < before she could consider what to do, her husband came in — Thomas Hardy > < consider how serious your position is > 2. < he considered her every wish > 3. < the old gentleman considered him attentively — Edith Wharton > 4. < consider thrift essential > < consider a leader to be unwise > 5. obsolete 6. < he is more considered abroad than here > 7. < I consider it's best that he left when he did > 8. < consider an apartment > < consider a trade-in on a car > intransitive verb 1. obsolete < then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague — Lev 13:13 (Authorized Version) > 2. < paused a moment to consider > Synonyms: < glancing at that, as at something she would take up presently and consider — Mary Austin > < love she considered, and hate, the enduringness and the moral and spiritual consequences of each — Rose Macaulay > < when I came to consider his conduct, I realized that he was guilty of a confusion — T.S.Eliot > contemplate stresses the steady calm focussing of one's attentive thought but implies nothing about the aims, methods, or results of that thinking < fine gentlemen and fine ladies are charming to contemplate in history — Bertrand Russell > < the poet “has an idea”, and in the course of contemplating it he draws from his subconscious a string of associated ideas and images — C.D.Lewis > study implies sustained, purposeful effort, care for both details and significance and ramifications, and full knowledge as an end < I like very naturally to think that I am being read, but the idea that I am being studied fills me … with a deepening gloom — Aldous Huxley > < Bryce, who had studied the matter so thoroughly, was wont to insist it is the smallest democracies which today stand highest in the scale — Havelock Ellis > : weigh suggests thoughtful arrival at an evaluation or decision in which evidence leading to opposite conclusions has been examined and evaluated < the problem is to get them [the young] to weigh evidence, draw accurate inferences, make fair comparisons, invent solutions, and form judgments — C.W.Eliot > < the fine balance with which Johnson weighed and sustained his judgments of human flaws and virtues — H.V.Gregory > In this sense revolve suggests turning over the matter under consideration so that all facets of it may be viewed and thought about < should he write to his son? For a time he revolved a long, tactful letter in his mind — H.G.Wells > < she was desperately revolving the risk of taking him into the front room to have out of him what his distrait presence half declared — Mary Austin > excogitate suggests deep thought and is likely to connote the fact of a notion or concept having been evolved or contrived as well as the fact of the occurrence of thought < the more sophisticated views on mental structure which Freud himself excogitated — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: < a church … which regarded all dissentients as rebels and traitors — W.R.Inge > < to regard her passion … and its tragic sequel as a romantic episode of girlhood — Rose Macaulay > Although often interchangeable with regard, consider may suggest a degree of reflection and hence a more soundly based judgment < it seems, however, best to consider as literature only works in which the aesthetic function is dominant — René Wellek & Austin Warren > account probably more common with plural than with singular subjects and certainly more common in passive than in active uses, most often suggests a consensus, a generality of opinion or judgment < the pier … was accounted a most excellent piece of stonework — William Cowper > < accounted the best jockey of the lot — Agnes M. Cleaveland > reckon, often informal in its tone, may suggest counting or computation underlying a judgment or indicating a point of view < not to be reckoned one character … but to reckon in the gross, in the hundred or thousand of the party — R.W.Emerson > It may on the other hand suggest casual judgment or supposition or guess < another field where the dominance of the method of sociology may be reckoned as assured — B.N.Cardozo > deem has a wide aura of suggestion. It often sounds archaic or literary; it is likely to sound formal or pompous or, by irony therefore, modest or whimsical. It may suggest considered, judicious, judgment < investigation of all the facts which it deems relevant — H.S.Truman > It also may apply to unreflective, intuitive choice < deeming a figure of speech to be worth frequent use — C.E.Montague > |
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