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单词 contemplation
释义
contemplation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.təmˈpleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.t̬əmˈpleɪ.ʃən/
seriousandquietthoughtfor aperiodoftime:
盘算；沉思，冥想
She wasstaringout over thelake,lostincontemplation.她凝视湖面，陷入沉思。
Thenunshave anhourforsilentcontemplation everymorning.修女们每天早晨要做一小时的默祷。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Thinking and contemplating
  • a brown studyidiom
  • agonize
  • agonize over/aboutsomething
  • beard-stroking
  • bethink
  • consideration
  • dip
  • harbour
  • introspect
  • introspection
  • joined-up thinking
  • lateral thinking
  • let me see/let's seeidiom
  • reflection
  • run throughsomeone'smind/headidiom
  • scratch
  • scratchyourheadidiom
  • self-contemplation
  • self-reflection
  • soul-searching
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Related words

contemplative
contemplatively
(Definition ofcontemplationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontemplation

contemplation
Linguistic control systems enable human beings to transcend individual experience and allow thecontemplationof possibilities that never have been, and never could be, experienced.
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The role of the villa might remain the space that enablescontemplationto become an ethos, and for action to become reconciled with poetry.
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Perhaps there is more virtuosity thancontemplationin the genuine solo verses.
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Isolated and categorized representations of objects are creatures of detachedcontemplation.
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No more did he wallow in mysticcontemplationof ecstatic union with the divine.
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Contemplationof the world's disappearing supplies of minerals, forests, and other exhaustible assets has led to demands for regulation of their exploration.
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He sat incontemplation, as he rehearsed, then practised falling over, slowly.
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Such an effect was not so easily generated as a consequence ofcontemplationof the power of the divine will.
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He has thrown out a massive agenda forcontemplation, rigorous thought, some research, and hugely important political decisions.
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Our goal is not ' life-affirming activity ' but ' quasiaesthetic and passivecontemplation'.#!
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These correlations will be examined with reference to the sources on the ambulatorycontemplationand the texts on the art of memory.
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It seemed he had achieved the solitude for study andcontemplationwhich he had always sought.
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No one could raise a circumstance of life so intensely withoutcontemplationof the opposite condition.
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I enjoy thecontemplationof ideas over time, until the need for expression, and further development, become emotionally compelling.
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But my aim here is to explore the idea of a critical distance on life and on thought, achieved through thecontemplationof age.
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