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

• Given a position, a program using a Monte Carlo algorithm contemplates every move and plays a large number of random games to see what happens.
  给定一个棋位，应用蒙特卡罗算法的程序预测每一步走法并进行大量随机走法将会带来什么结果。
• And then you have the finished product-the piece of music that is played, or the work of art that somebody contemplates.
  然后，你有了成品演奏的这首乐曲，或者是某人凝视的这幅作品。
• Our neighbour contemplates moving to Chicago.
  我们的邻居打算搬到芝加哥去。
• Those artsy types at the Rhode Island School of Design can put down their paintbrushes and take "The Art of Sin and the Sin of Art", which contemplates the relationship between sin and the art world.
  罗德岛设计学院那些有艺术家气质之学生可以放下画笔，选修“罪之艺术和艺术之罪”这门课。该课程对罪孽和艺术世界之关系进行思考。
• 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。
• Based on analyzing the modern Chinese classical short stories, the auther contemplates a few theoretic problems as follows.
  论文在分析了一批中国现代经典短篇小说的基础上，思考了几个理论问题。
• She lies on the grass, contemplates the high, blue sky.
  她躺在草地上，凝视著高高的蓝天。
• In the black and white drawing above, a youth gravely contemplates a narrow winding path heading into a forest.
  在上面黑白的图画中，一个年轻人严肃地凝望着前方蜿蜒曲折通向森林的小路。
• 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。
• 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。