contemplate

1 If we are willing to contemplate nuclear war and the wholesale destruction of our emerging global society, should we not also be willing to contemplate a wholesale restructuring of our societies?

2 And so it was that in the first week of March, Lexie found herself in the drugstore, contemplating the shelf of pregnancy tests.

3 In the moments she had to herself, usually in the dark, minutes before falling asleep, Briony contemplated a ghostly parallel life in which she was at Girton, reading Milton.

4 He'd never had to contemplate death before, and fear was overwhelming him.

5 Published two years before Banks’ death in early 2023, the book is an intimate portrait of a man contemplating his legacy while approaching the end of his life.

6 He paused, and she knew he was contemplating how she might use the information against him, weighing the risk of telling her the truth.

7 Laughing, Harry turned to contemplate the blank wall behind which, he was sure, Draco Malfoy was now standing frozen, aware that someone unwelcome was out there, but not daring to make an appearance.

8 I contemplated my chances and fanned a dim ember of hope in my heart as I sat in the sun, reeking like a giant match.

9 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。

10 “The idea of its being you!” said I. And then we contemplated one another afresh, and laughed again.

11 The Superconducting Super Collider, a multibillion dollar project that was contemplated until the early 1990s, was going to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built.

12 Contemplate the problem before making a final decision.

做最后决定前,仔细考虑一下这个问题.

13 I grab a handful of Cheetos and feed them into my mouth one by one as if I’m operating mastication machinery, contemplating how to tell Fizz about the latest development on the Jeremy front.

14 Constance, meanwhile, was trying not to contemplate what might happen to her when Mr. Curtain boosted the messages to full power.

15 She contemplated him in silence.

她默默地注视着他。

16 Finally I decided to do something most college athletes can never contemplate: leaving campus to study abroad.

17 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.

18 Or contemplate a silent freeway?

还是想凝视那寂静的高速公路?

19 He had spent much of the night simply staring at his gold medal, contemplating it as it hung on the end of his bunk.

20 I contemplated calling home for the hundredth time.

1 凝视

stare gaze glare contemplation regard set consider rest peer dwell staring fixation fixate fix with fix on regardant eye aspect glower pore sken clock devour gaup

2 仔细思考

contemplation advisement mull ponder con chew poise

3 预料

expected expectation anticipation expectancy presupposition expect anticipate foresee foretell presuppose

4 默想

study think ponder muse ruminate commune with oneself commune with own heart musing ruminative museful musingly reflection rumination speculate

5 预期

expectant expectation anticipation anticipate in anticipation look toward in prospect due expected prospective intended bargain on anticipant anticipatory intending prevenient anticipative expectancy contemplation prolepsis expectance look expect bargain ween expectative think envisage antedate lay account with previsional proleptic expectantly foretaste prevenience project prevent forerun in anticipation of in expectation

6 熟视

sight gaze contemplation

7 思考

think thought thinking reflection meditation outworking mentation cerebration consider debate bethink cerebrate sit on brood

8 期待

expectant view expectation anticipation expectancy contemplation expectance watch count hope expect trust attend anticipate await ween expectative esperance look wait tarry prospect bargain in expectation of lay account with expect to in hope of in expectation

9 审视

study inspection eye survey scan inspect pore over

10 意欲

would-be minded conation about think purpose incline intend purport conative conatus mean plan

11 熟思

contemplative

12 冥思

contemplation

13 注视

watch regard contemplation fixation rest stare fixate ogle gloat eye clock look follow fix with fix on watchful lidless regardant agaze gaze focus pore bird-dog behold outlook mind fix dig study consider glom eyeball keep eyes on rest eyes on stare in the face give an eye to stare a in the face

14 企图

offer design attempt meaning bid essay shy undertaking assay stagger smite contemplation incubation pretence rede intendment nisus conatus birl think aim imagine purpose intend meditate contrive

15 思忖

reckon gloat

16 默思

muse

17 苦思冥想

cudgel brains scratch your head over scratch your head

18 端详

study consider scan peer scope out

19 熟虑

deliberative consideration calculation advisement cogitation think consider cogitate

20 沉思默想

recollected muse

21 思量

digest think on

22 仔细考虑

reflection caution deliberate dissect cogitate have a think chew over weigh up use your head think twice chew on think over think out contemplation ponder poise brood incubate mull

23 细想

consider debate chew bethink revolve

24 冥想

meditation contemplation navel-gazing metapsychology muse meditate contemplate navel contemplative musing museful recollection reverie bethink

25 设想

see suppose

26 打算

plan thought concept intention conception contemplation mean project intend calculate meditate idea design purpose think aim propose set sights on have in view going to up for in the business of have in mind notion be supposed to do mark down plan on start out bound programme go fix mint rede could calculated view intent arithmetic designment allow havein mind with the view of doing have a great notion that allot on Will mind calculation drive with the intention of V ing find it in oneself to V be going to V mean to intend to be prepared to

27 深思熟虑

delicacy advisement pore thoughtful contemplative deliberate cogitate chew over take under advisement turn over

28 盘算

debate revolve contemplation weigh up

29 沉思

reflective meditative pensive reflection meditation contemplation muse meditate ruminate in a brown study pore brood cogitate thoughtful thoughtfully pensively meditatively thoughtfulness rumination pensiveness grave absent speculative contemplative musing ruminant study thought thinking think consider reflect chew ponder debate commune with oneself commune with own heart brood over gloat navel-gazing philosophize chew over chew on sunk in thought deep in thought ruminative wistful museful speculation melancholy commune reverie speculate incubate broody amuse cogitabund reflecting wistfully reflectively reflectingly cogitation pensee pensée brown study put thinking cap on

30 暝想

contemplative contemplation

31 预想

presupposition prefigure

32 考虑

purpose thought regard consideration deliberation control think view consider dream debate weigh cater ponder meditate punt bethink think on take cognizance of take thought take see look at think of think about look to come at