| 单词 | contemplate |
| 释义 | con·tem·plate transitive verb 1. < a way of looking her over from beneath lowered lids while he affected to be … contemplating the tip of his shining boot — Edith Wharton > 2. < while in your pride ye contemplate your talents, power, or wisdom — William Wordsworth > 3. a. < the opinion … that while science, by a deliberate abstraction, contemplates a world of facts without values, religion contemplates values apart from facts — W.R.Inge > b. < absent-mindedly feeling in their pockets as men do when contemplating a purchase — Kenneth Roberts > c. < the moment and the act he had contemplated for weeks with a thrill of pleasure — Thomas Hardy > d. < the law would seem to contemplate that it should be made to the secretary of state — John Marshall > 4. < since contemplation is an intellectual exercise it cannot allow itself to be identified with the thing contemplated — Leon Livingstone > — compare enjoy intransitive verb < to sit still and contemplate — to remember the faces of women without desire — R.L.Stevenson > Synonyms: see consider |
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