英语词汇“to contemplate one's navel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. to contemplate (also regard) one's navel: to engage in (frequently profitless) meditation or contemplation; to spend time complacently considering oneself or one's own interests at the expense of a wider view. Cf. navel-contemplation n. at Compounds 2. [Ultimately after medieval Greek ὀμϕαλόψυχος navel-gazer (see omphalopsychite n. at omphalo- comb. form ), a term applied disparagingly to the Hesychasts by their opponents (compare Hesychast n.).]

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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate, reflect [verb (intransitive)] > regard navel

to contemplate (also regard) one's navel1854

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > get exemption [verb (intransitive)] > reject responsibility or involvement

to contemplate (also regard) one's navel1854

1854 Harper's Mag. July 257/2 Therefore..every man who has contemplated his own navel until he is solemnly convinced that he has seen to the bottom of it..is cocksure that he can help the world.

1891 R. W. Buchanan Outcast 14 And like a dervish contemplate My very navel till it grows The central whirligig of Fate.

1933 E. O'Neill Days without End (1934) i. 21 His letters..extolled passionless contemplation so passionately that I had a mental view of him regarding his navel frenziedly by the hour and making nothing of it!

1966 Listener 24 Nov. 770/1 One sits in a New York traffic jam, contemplating, as it were, the city's navel, and the conclusion is inevitable that death from a combination of congestion and suffocation is not far off.

1975 Times 2 June 12/8 Lift our eyes for a moment from the contemplation of our own unlovely navels and look out to where..our fellow human beings live.

1991 Guardian 13 May 4/8 Mr Cockburn said the Post Office ‘could not stop the world while the unions contemplated their navels’.

单词	to contemplate one's navel
释义	> as lemmas to contemplate (also regard) one's navel b. to contemplate (also regard) one's navel: to engage in (frequently profitless) meditation or contemplation; to spend time complacently considering oneself or one's own interests at the expense of a wider view. Cf. navel-contemplation n. at Compounds 2. [Ultimately after medieval Greek ὀμϕαλόψυχος navel-gazer (see omphalopsychite n. at omphalo- comb. form ), a term applied disparagingly to the Hesychasts by their opponents (compare Hesychast n.).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate, reflect [verb (intransitive)] > regard navel to contemplate (also regard) one's navel1854 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > get exemption [verb (intransitive)] > reject responsibility or involvement to contemplate (also regard) one's navel1854 1854 Harper's Mag. July 257/2 Therefore..every man who has contemplated his own navel until he is solemnly convinced that he has seen to the bottom of it..is cocksure that he can help the world. 1891 R. W. Buchanan Outcast 14 And like a dervish contemplate My very navel till it grows The central whirligig of Fate. 1933 E. O'Neill Days without End (1934) i. 21 His letters..extolled passionless contemplation so passionately that I had a mental view of him regarding his navel frenziedly by the hour and making nothing of it! 1966 Listener 24 Nov. 770/1 One sits in a New York traffic jam, contemplating, as it were, the city's navel, and the conclusion is inevitable that death from a combination of congestion and suffocation is not far off. 1975 Times 2 June 12/8 Lift our eyes for a moment from the contemplation of our own unlovely navels and look out to where..our fellow human beings live. 1991 Guardian 13 May 4/8 Mr Cockburn said the Post Office ‘could not stop the world while the unions contemplated their navels’. extracted from naveln. < as lemmas
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