contemplates

英 [ˈkɒntəmpleɪts]

美 [ˈkɑːntəmpleɪts]

v.  考虑; 思量; 思忖; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑; 沉思; 苦思冥想
contemplate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 考虑;思量;思忖
  If youcontemplatean action, you think about whether to do it or not.
  1. For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor...
     有段时间，他考虑去当军医。
  2. She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
     她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• VERB 深思熟虑;沉思;苦思冥想
  If youcontemplatean idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 凝视;注视
  If youcontemplatesomething or someone, you look at them for a long time.
  1. He contemplated his hands, still frowning.
     他盯着自己的双手，眉头紧锁。

双语例句

• The life boundary contemplates the variability and the solemn and sadness of life and its destiny.
  生命境界感悟命运人生的无常、庄严、感伤；
• But trade is one of the few areas where the world contemplates the new administration with apprehension rather than hope.
  但是，贸易是世人以忧虑（而非希望）的目光注视着新政府的少数几个领域之一。
• And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
  那在你里面唱歌着、默想着的，仍住在那第一刻在太空散布群星的圈子里。
• At a number of points in the play, he contemplates his own death and even the option of suicide.
  在剧中的很多时候，他都在思考自己的死亡甚至是要选择自杀。
• Whenever a man exclaims that all mankind are villains, be assured that he contemplates an instant offers of himself as an exception.
  每当一个人宣称所有人类都是坏蛋之时，你尽可放心好了，在这当儿他是打算把自己作为例外推出台的。
• They voted for the resolution, which contemplates sanctions.
  他们投票赞成联合国决议，而该决议是要求实施制裁的。
• In classroom final, teacher can move darkly the classroom light, music is gentle, everybody either lies down or the seat, closes both eyes to enter contemplates the condition.
  在课堂的最后，老师会把教室的灯光调暗，音乐更柔和，大家或躺或坐，闭上双眼进入冥想状态。
• He contemplates the book for hours as random, meaningless, non-Euclidean reality invades it, forcing it to register the presence of a world it cannot describe.
  他长时间地盯着这本书，陷入沉思，仿佛现实正在入侵那个无法描述的世界。
• Indeed, as the regime contemplates its future course in the face of any emboldened opposition to emulate the brutality of Syria, or to move tentatively to reforms public encouragement will be needed to take the right path.
  实际上，沙特王室在思考未来的路线是效仿叙利亚的残暴，还是尝试进行改革时，将需要公众的鼓励来选择正确的道路。
• For Rakuten, as it contemplates its international blitz, the answer is to look for markets where infrastructure such as broadband, credit cards and delivery logistics are improving but the market is not yet saturated with established players.
  对于在考虑大举进军海外市场的乐天而言，它的策略应该是寻找那些基础设施正不断完善、但尚未让老牌竞争对手饱和的市场，如宽带、信用卡和物流配送等领域。