| 单词 | ponder |
| 释义 | pon·der I. transitive verb 1. < pondered the child, and the life she had thus far lived — Elizabeth M. Roberts > 2. < ponder the shape and size of a new product > 3. < ponder the events of history > intransitive verb < ponder over a moral issue > Synonyms: < United States customs officials pondered whether to admit as art and as sculpture a work by the Rumanian modernist — Thomas Munro > < I shall ponder the matter carefully, my friends, and with the help of prayer, I may yet arrive at some solution of our difficulties — Elinor Wylie > < they demand a good deal of careful pondering and the recollection of pertinent facts — J.H.Robinson †1936 > < pondered over God's greatness and incomprehensibility — H.O.Taylor > meditate suggests more a directing or focusing of one's thoughts in an effort to comprehend something, or it can suggest merely deep consideration, often with a purpose or plan in mind to be settled < the young priest blotted himself out of his own consciousness and meditated upon the anguish of his Lord — Willa Cather > < meditated with concentrated attention on the problem of flight — Havelock Ellis > < what she meditated doing on England's behalf — C.S.Forester > muse can come close to meditate but more often suggests a mere more or less focused daydreaming as in remembrance < he sat immovably, like one that mused on some great purpose — Thomas De Quincey > < he mused wretchedly, as he walked homeward, what might she not do? — William McFee > < still a pleasant mystery; enough to muse over on a dull afternoon — Elmer Davis > < not so much in order to read it as to muse with kindly condescension over this token of bygone fashion — Virginia Woolf > ruminate usually implies a going over the same matter again and again, suggesting less than the other terms a deliberative weighing or a focusing or absorption < I sit at home and ruminate on the qualities of certain little books like this one — L.P.Smith > < forty years of ruminating on life — Waldemar Kaempffert > < the characters of the new friends he made interested him tremendously, and he could ruminate upon them when alone — Osbert Sitwell > < to teach philosophy, write, and ruminate beneath elms — Whitney Balliett > II. |
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