| 单词 | think |
| 释义 | think I. obsolete < him thought that in his depth of sleep he saw a soldier armed — Thomas Heywood > — compare methinks II. transitive verb 1. a. < few people think accurately — and think things not words — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < “an evil bird,” he thought — Louis Bromfield > < ashamed to think how easily we capitulate — R.W.Emerson > b. dialect chiefly Britain < men should think shame to be less heroic — Gilbert Highet > 2. < thought to return early > < yet manhood remained to act the thing I thought — P.B.Shelley > 3. a. (1) < thought the question might arise — F.J.Haskin > < a fine performance, he thought > (2) < comes to think that the prison is the world — J.B.Priestley > < we know, or think we know, … the critical method — T.S.Eliot > < was first thought to have drowned — Time > b. < may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper — U.S. Constitution > < think it not unfair to suggest — Virgil Thomson > < put a copy on order … if you think it your kind of book — Times Literary Supplement > 4. a. < these deeds must not be thought after these ways — Shakespeare > < think what their children would be — E.T.Thurston > — often used with over < said he would think the matter over > b. < was thinking what to do next > — often used with out < parents must think out for themselves what this means to their own young — Dorothy Barclay > 5. < thought to ask him the trick of it — Anne S. Mehdevi > 6. < the Almighty … thought the archetypes of all things and devised their variations — William James > — usually used with out or up < remain calm and think out a solution — James Hewitt > < thought up a caption that exactly covered the whole idea — William Murrell > 7. a. obsolete < he, thinking no harm, agreed — Daniel Defoe > b. < thought to find him at home > 8. < there be who think not God at all — John Milton > 9. < a novelist has thought … characters into existence — Bernard DeVoto > < learned to think his feelings by way of French symbolism — Harold Rosenberg > 10. a. (1) < talks and thinks nothing but airplanes > (2) < many white men … were thinking black and advocating absolute equality between the two races — Cape Times > b. < found it difficult to think infinity > 11. < wanted to be left alone to think things out — Victoria Sackville-West > < always thinks the problems through before acting > intransitive verb 1. a. < it is the power to think which makes us human — Vicki Baum > b. (1) < would do well to think again — J.F.Golay > < will think twice before he risks another defeat — L.C.Douglas > — often used with a preposition (as about, of, or on) < the American child is taught to think about each situation as it comes up — Margaret Mead > (2) < the best plan they could think of was to leave > 2. a. < enabled me to think with tender affection upon her loyalty and devotion — Nashville Tennessean > b. (1) < the department is thinking of opening new message centers — Armand Schwab > (2) < thought of him for the presidential nomination > 3. a. (1) < thought of his old home when he saw the house > (2) < will think of himself as a painter — Thomas Munro > < was to think of nothing as being his own — K.S.Latourette > b. < thought well of him — Carol L. Thompson > < thinks a great deal of his physician — Walt Whitman > < thinks nothing of his brother > 4. < a man must think of his family, his realm, his empire — Francis Hackett > 5. < may strike when you least think > — sometimes used with for < will get along better than he thinks for — Walt Whitman > Synonyms: < what caused the Mound Builder culture … to die out? We can only speculate — R.W.Murray > < in times of peace the specialist of war … may only speculate about the effect of new weapons — S.L.A.Marshall > reflect is likely to suggest an unhurried contemplative consideration involving recall and reexamination < she could reflect in long, sane meditations above the uneasy sea of her pain — Arnold Bennett > < the standpoint of the man who did not criticize or reflect, but accepted simply — G.L.Dickinson > reason indicates careful attention to rational or logical thought sequences, to orderly thought processes from evidence or premise to conclusion < Lincoln's way with any problem was to examine it from all sides and reason it out intellectually — Ruth P. Randall > < perhaps a close study of the behavior of very young children … may provide some valuable hints, but it seems dangerous to reason from such experiments — Edward Sapir > < found himself reasoning in a circle > deliberate implies a pondering with careful thought, unhurried procedure, and fair consideration of various aspects < a nationwide representative assembly, with power to deliberate although not actually to make laws — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink > < the future relations of the two countries could now be deliberated on with a hope of settlement — J.A.Froude > cogitate indicates deep, intent, sometimes labored thinking < cogitating over the problem for hours > < cogitated about the question a noticeable time before answering > Synonyms: < helpful to think of two economic systems operating simultaneously throughtout rural parts of the Northeast — P.E.James > < found church a very good place for thinking her love affairs into their right proportion — Sheila Kaye-Smith > conceive may imply forming an idea and nurturing and developing it to serviceable fullness as a concept < for the poem Coleridge conceived in theory as well as evolved in practice a quantitative metric — W.R.Parker > < now conceived a plan of returning to France and obtaining a force to conquer Canada — J.C.Fitzpatrick > imagine may imply the process of free mental visualization or pictorialization that is often vivid, relatively unguided, and unchecked by rationality < a marvelously imagined description of the state of blessed souls — H.O.Taylor > < by burning or otherwise destroying the image he imagines that he kills his foe — J.G.Frazer > < could imagine easily original plots for stories or plays, but never received any impulse to write them — G.W.Russell > fancy, often interchangeable with imagine, may imply a dreamy, indulgent fondness for unguided contemplation of the unreal < fancied he saw them take each other's hands and dance a strange and monstrous dance, the dance of the Annihilation of All Life — J.C.Powys > < who fancied she had been transferred to a fairy palace — William Black > realize suggests a vividness of conception or imagination whereby a grasp is attained of the significance of the matter being thought about < saw a tin lamp burning kerosene, and realized its possibilities — Allan Nevins > < burning with the passion of infinitely realized and therefore eternally restless love — W.L.Sullivan > envisage and envision may imply a clarity of conception or imagination with clear-cut detail < had a flair for envisaging the possible molecular structures of compounds — S.F.Mason > < envisaged the flat land beyond the Alps in Lombardy as he later envisaged Catalonia beyond the Pyrenees and the right bank of the Middle Rhine, not as country to be conquered but as a belt of protection beyond a frontier — Hilaire Belloc > < includes the territories envisioned by the tsarist planners of 1914-16 as part of the Russian empire — D.J.Dallin > < the approaching truck driver tramped down hard; brakes squealed; the photographer momentarily envisioned a smashed truck and mangled driver — G.R.Stewart > < those early predictors who envisioned great ports in the shores of Lake Pontchartrain — American Guide Series: Louisiana > • - think better of - think long - think much III. 1. < has to make up his mind in a deep hard think — Jerome Ellison > < if he thinks he can fool me, he as another think coming > 2. < let's exchange thinks > IV. 1. a. — used for thinking b. < a new think film > 2. < a frequently quoted think columnist > |
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