contemplated
past simple and past participle ofcontemplate
| 单词 | contemplated |
| 释义 | contemplated past simple and past participle ofcontemplate contemplate verb[IorT] uk/ˈkɒn.təm.pleɪt/us/ˈkɑːn.t̬əm.pleɪt/C2 tospendtimeconsideringapossiblefutureaction, or toconsideroneparticularthing for alongtimein aseriousandquietway: [+ -ing verb]I'm contemplating goingabroadfor ayear. They were contemplating amoveto California. It'stooawful/horrific/dangeroustocontemplate. Synonyms museformal ponderformal to think carefully about something
Thinking and contemplating
Examplesofcontemplatedcontemplated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He propelled people along career paths that without his encouragement they would never even havecontemplated. From theCambridge English Corpus But reform was usually onlycontemplatedwith regard to women of the working classes. From theCambridge English Corpus Television is not somethingcontemplatedat a distance; distance - crucial for aura - is generally lacking. From theCambridge English Corpus From studies of crevasse opening and closure, hecontemplatedboth brittle and ductile aspects of ice deformation. From theCambridge English Corpus To my mind there are three problem areas that should be dealt with if another edition should ever becontemplated. From theCambridge English Corpus Should closure becontemplatedusing a device introduced via a catheter, the ideal defect for such a maneuver is of the intermediate type. From theCambridge English Corpus People can use their mutual knowledge of groupings in a system of precedent to predict a beneficial or unfavorable judicial response tocontemplatedbehavior. From theCambridge English Corpus First, the report notes that informed consent is crucial when predictive genetic screening iscontemplated. From theCambridge English Corpus The idea of adding an act to the alternatives alreadycontemplatedmay take a more subtle form. From theCambridge English Corpus Thecontemplatedintegration and its application are best described through the following example. From theCambridge English Corpus The list of potentially contrastive features which they document, incidentally, is considerably larger than the feature inventory standardlycontemplatedby phonologists. From theCambridge English Corpus Federalism or regional autonomy, much less partition, can hardly becontemplatedbecause the two main communities are widely scattered and interspersed throughout the country. From theCambridge English Corpus However, in publicly funded health care systems at least, the initiation of a national screening program is unlikely to becontemplatedwithout evidence of cost-effectiveness. From theCambridge English Corpus This was a question that had beencontemplatedin earlier times, but in the sixteenth century it took on a different cast. From theCambridge English Corpus We remark that expressing the index implies that smooth trade-offs of stocks, giving rise to shadow prices, must becontemplatedby the proponents. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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