contemplate

• vt. 沉思；注视；思忖；预期
• vi. 冥思苦想；深思熟虑

con-, 强调。-tem，砍，切，词源同tome, anatomy，temple. 本义为一块保留（切下来）的用来占卜的神圣之地，后用来指思考的地方，沉思，考虑。

1. look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought;

"contemplate one's navel"

2. consider as a possibility;

"I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"

3. think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes;

"He is meditating in his study"

4. reflect deeply on a subject;

"I mulled over the events of the afternoon"

"philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"

"The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

contemplate

contemplate: [16] Etymologically, to contemplate something is to observe it in a ‘temple’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin contemplārī, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and templum. This word, source of course of English temple, originally signified a space marked out by augurs (priests in ancient Rome who interpreted omens) for making observations. Hence contemplārī originally meant ‘observe omens carefully’, but its application soon became more general.
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contemplate (v.)

1590s, from Latin contemplatus, past participle of contemplari "survey, observe" (see contemplation). Related: Contemplated; contemplating.

study, consider, ponder, weigh, contemplate

这些动词均有"考虑，思考，估量"之意。

study： 普通用词，指对各方面考虑，在制订出计划或采取具体动作之前作认真检查。

consider： 既指一时的对某事的考虑，也指长时间的深入的思考。

ponder： 侧重仔细、深入、连续地考虑问题，以作出认真

的估计和正确的抉择。

weigh： 指作出决策前把问题的各个方面进行比较，权衡利害得失，取有利的方面。

contemplate： 通常指长时间思考某事，有时含无确定的实际目的。

She lay in bed, contemplating.

她躺在床上冥思苦想。

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She contemplated him in silence.

她默默地注视着他。

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to contemplate your future

仔细盘算未来

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I can't contemplate what it would be like to be alone.

我不能想象独自一人会是个什么样子。

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The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.

战争太可怕了，真不敢去想。

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I have never contemplated living abroad.

我从未考虑过去国外居住。

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You're too young to be contemplating retirement.

你考虑退休还太年轻。

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He contemplated his hands, still frowning.

他盯着自己的双手，眉头紧锁。

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For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor...

有段时间，他考虑去当军医。

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She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.

她考虑为了孩子而离开。

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As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future...

那天晚上，他躺在医院的病床上，想到未来，他哭了起来。

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That makes it difficult to contemplate the idea that the present policy may not be sustainable.

那让人难以认真思考这个可能，即目前的政策也许并不能持续下去。

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Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.

当然, 你可能被认为是罪人, 一心想着雪耻, 或者是抱恨终生.

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But what a heinous immortaility to contemplate ! Perhaps this is the fate of voldemort.

但是想想那会是怎样一种可憎的长生不死啊.

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I do not contemplate any opposition from him.

我想他不至于反对.

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I'm going to walk home now and contemplate where I have gone wrong all these years.

现在,我自己走回家好了,我要想想这些年来我到底错在哪里了.

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Contemplate the problem before making a final decision.

做最后决定前,仔细考虑一下这个问题.

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We contemplate obtain a technical license.

我们希望获得一项技术许可证.

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Afghan youths contemplate a Hollywood movie poster outside a theater in Kabul in 1946.

1946年,几个阿富汗的年轻人注视着喀布尔一家戏院外的好莱坞电影海报.

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Perhaps President Bush will be too busy with domestic policy to contemplate further adventures abroad.

也许布什总统将忙于为国内政策运筹帷幄,无暇顾及海外冒险行动.

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He goes to the park every day to sit and contemplate.

他每天去公园,坐在那里沉思默想.

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Practice of Dharma denotes practice of insight to contemplate the phenomena in application of Dharma teaching.

在佛陀教法的应用中,佛法的实践代表观察自然现象的内明实践.

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The destruction of a President with its collapse of executive authority was too staggering to contemplate.

总统的毁灭和行政权威的垮台前景太可怕,难以设想.

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Does an angel contemplate my fate?

会有天使来思量我的命运 吗 ?

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I hope subsequent events are not so painful to contemplate.

我希望需要思考的后续事件不是这般沉痛.

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Use your wisdom to contemplate yourself nature within your own mind.

用你的智慧去默想在你心灵中那个自性.

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How could he contemplate taking up the same function?

他怎么能企图从事同样的功能?

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