contemplate

1. V-T If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not. 考慮

For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor. 他曾一度考慮做一名軍醫(yī)。

2. V-T If you contemplate an idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time. 對(duì)…考慮再三

As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future. 那天晚上他躺在醫(yī)院病床上，當(dāng)他反復(fù)考慮自己的未來時(shí)他哭了。

3. contemplationN-UNCOUNT 考慮再三

It is a place of quiet contemplation. 這是一個(gè)適合靜靜深思的地方。

4. V-T If you contemplate something or someone, you look at them for a long time. 凝視

He contemplated his hands, still frowning. 他凝視著他的雙手，依然皺著眉頭。

5. contemplationN-UNCOUNT 凝視

He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape for a while. 他沉湎在對(duì)風(fēng)景的凝視中好一會(huì)兒。