contemplate
美 [ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪt] 
英 [ˈkɒntəmˌpleɪt]
词形变化
第三人称单数：contemplates 现在分词：contemplating 过去式：contemplated 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t] 考虑；思量；思忖to think about whether you should do sth, or how you should do sth |
| You're too young to be contemplating retirement. 你考虑退休还太年轻。 |
| I have never contemplated living abroad. 我从未考虑过去国外居住。 |
| He continued while she contemplated how to answer. 她还在考虑如何回答时，他就继续往下说了。 |
2. | [t] 考虑接受（发生某事的可能性）to think carefully about and accept the possibility of sth happening |
| The thought of war is too awful to contemplate. 战争太可怕了，真不敢去想。 |
| 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。 |
| She contemplated that things might get even worse. 她想到事情可能会变得更糟。 |
3. | [t][i] ~ (sth) 深思熟虑；沉思；苦思冥想to think deeply about sth for a long time |
| to contemplate your future 仔细盘算未来 |
| She lay in bed, contemplating. 她躺在床上冥思苦想。 |
4. | [t] ~ sb/sth 端详；审视to look at sb/sth in a careful way for a long time |
| She contemplated him in silence. 她默默地注视着他。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"That 's unfortunate, " was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began to smoke and contemplate the stars.
“真是不幸，”他点燃一支雪茄，一边吸着烟看着星星沉思，一边回答道。
Firms will have to go abroad for growth and will need domestic scale to be able to contemplate this.
所以企业必须走向国际以寻求增长，企业当然也需要在国内有一定的规模才能够考虑国际化这一步。
Death may be hard to contemplate, but this book is as much about the journey as it is about the last stop.
死亡或许会很难苦思冥想，但是这本书在写关于旅途的同时也涉及最后一站。
The possibility that Gerhardt was disabled for life opened long vistas of difficulties which she had not the courage to contemplate.
老头子要成残废的可能，打开来日艰难的一条长视景，使她没有去细想它的勇气了。
Contemplate the fact that you might have made a regrettable, but somewhat explainable decision then.
谨记这个事实：也许你做了一个让人懊悔但仍然可以解释的决定。
Those old enough to contemplate having children of their own were even more passionate on this point.
那些年龄够大、考虑要自己孩子的年轻人甚至对此的要求更为强烈。
Firms of the size of Riversdale are small enough for any number of potential bidders to be able to contemplate buying them.
比如，像里弗斯这样小规模的公司对任何潜在投标人来说，在收购前都要斟酌一番。
If you want some time alone to contemplate your options now, clearly let others know that you need a bit of space.
如果你想要一些时间单独计划下你的选择的话，要明确告诉其他人你需要这样一个空间。
If newspapers can keep that up in better times, they may be able to contemplate more than mere survival.
如果在更好的经济时期，报业能够继续保持这种适应能力，那么他们可能考虑的就远不止生存问题了。
It must stand as an example and a warning to all that would contemplate even trying to do such things ever in the future.
这必须成为一个实例，一个警告，给那些盘算着如此行动的人们，甚至在未来。
We need to understand the true nature of the teaching and contemplate( meditate) its true meanings.
我们应该了解我们的佛法导师-梁老师所教导的真实意涵，并应深思其中的真义。
The scale of the ambition makes it the sort of thing that only a Google would contemplate - or be able to afford.
这种抱负的规模决定了它是那种只有谷歌会去考虑——或能够负担得起的事。
its easy to say I, you know, we have the right motivation but we should really contemplate on this.
你知道，这个说来容易，但是我们真的应该好好思维它。
All day he did nothing but contemplate.
他整天除了沉思外没做任何事。
The course 'Human Happiness' aims not to provide students with a manual for achieving happiness, but to help them contemplate "happiness" .
的目的并非教人如何寻找「幸福」，而是帮助同学思考「幸福」。
He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought.
他必须根据一般性来深入思考特殊性，并在思绪奔放的同时触及抽象与具体。
She laid down the letter, which seemed so full of love to her, and began to contemplate her sleeping cousin with the warmest kindness.
她把这封她认为充满爱情的信放下，心满意足地端详着睡觉的堂兄弟。
It was a fine, clear, autumn morning, when they came upon the scene of his promotion, and stopped to contemplate its beauties.
在一个晴朗的秋天早晨，他们到达了他这个新任所的界内，停在那里默想着那地方的幽美。
As you contemplate the question, Gargoyles, Demon spawns, and a giant Black Dragon charge at you from within the keep.
当你正在思考著的同时，魔界使者、恶魔之子和一条巨大的黑龙从要塞内挑战你。
So I'm absolutely certain that I exist but when I contemplate my body if it's all an illusion I cannot be sure that my body exists.
我完全确信我的存在，但是当我思考肉体的时候，那是否只是一个幻想而已，我并不能确定我肉体的存在。
She laid down the letter, which seemed so full of love to her, and began to contemplate her sleeping cousin with the warmest kindness.
她把这封她认为充满爱情的信放下，心满意足地端详着睡觉的堂兄弟。
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。
The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.
战争太可怕了，真不敢去想。
It was a time not too different from the present, a moment when Chinese keenly contemplate their place in the world.
那段时间是中国竭力思索其在世界上地位的时期，与现在没有很多的区别。
Europeans do not seriously contemplate a political union along the lines of that of the United States with a popularly-elected president.
欧洲人也并不认真地期望按照美国的方式建立一个具有民选总统的政治联盟。
That might be a suitable place for the pitiable humans remaining to contemplate the errors of our supposedly enlightened civilization.
这可能是一个合适的地方，让残存的可怜人们对我们那所谓开悟文明的错误进行深深的反思。
Defeat is not a word that the dark Ones contemplate as they considered themselves invincible.
失败并不是黑暗势力会考虑的词汇，因为他们认为自己是无敌的。
I would take more turns on the merry-go-round, contemplate more dawns, and play more with children. If I had my life ahead of me again.
我愿意多玩几次旋转木马、注视黎明，还要和孩子们多玩一会。如果我还有来生。
A few years ago Europe's leading clubs seemed to be prepared to contemplate a breach with FIFA.
几年前，欧洲一些大的俱乐部似乎在准备同国际足联翻脸。
Per the Zetas, it will be the status quo until the Last Weeks, as the establishment cannot contemplate any other course of action.
直到最后几个星期，为建立可以不考虑任何其他行动。
Some European countries are beginning to contemplate (and, to a limited extent, undertake) economic reforms.
一些欧洲国家正在打算改革（当然是在一定的范围内进行）。
Leaving France as the only state in Europe with nuclear weapons is not something any British government would lightly contemplate.
任何一届英国政府都不会轻率地考虑让法国成为欧洲唯一拥有核武器的国家。
But consider this: if the theory weren't right, it's possible that none of us would be here to contemplate anything at all.
大家细想一下：如果这个理论错了，也许就没有我们这些在座的芸芸众生啦！
The costs of a meltdown would be too grave to contemplate. The members simply have to prevent that. They have no sane alternative.
欧元区解体的后果严峻得难以想象，其成员国应竭力避免。其他的选择都不明智。
But the United States might contemplate what could have happened during the early days of the space race with yet another rocket genius.
但是，美国可能会考虑在太空竞赛的早期，在中国失去这一位火箭天才的情况下
The Yin and Yang are a model that the faithful follow, an aid that allows each person to contemplate the state of his or her lives.
阴和阳是信徒追随的原型，有助于让一个人去凝视他或她的生命状态。
and it included none of the entitlement reforms that President Barack Obama was once prepared to contemplate.
并且该协议不包括贝拉克·奥巴马总统一度所预期的津贴改革。
But why even contemplate such a scenario when it could all be avoided by sending me a check ?
但为什么你们还要眼睁睁地看着这一幕幕的发生呢，给我支票这一切不就搞定了吗？。
Byron began to seriously contemplate leaving baseball to become a motivational speaker, despite objections from friends and family members.
尽管朋友和家人不断出现反对的声音，拜伦开始认真考虑离开棒球，成为一个能激励人心的演讲家。
The fascinating physics of foams offers much to contemplate as you shower before heading off to the bar.
在你去就酒吧前冲凉时，泡沫的美妙物理足够你好好冥思苦想一阵了。
Art requires you to spend some time with it, to contemplate and think, leave and return.
艺术要求你在作品面前花费时间，沉思并想象，走开再回来。
In a society where the quest for happiness has never been more intense, there are powerful questions to contemplate.
在一个空前热切地追求快乐的社会里，有许多影响重大的问题需要思考。
NG's project for the Bund is not to understand, to interpret, but to listen, to contemplate, and to get some shapes.
NG这次的外滩计划，并不是要观众去理解或翻译她的“演讲”，而是去倾听和获得一些事物的轮廓。
