philosophize

1. V-I If you say that someone is philosophizing, you mean that they are talking or thinking about important subjects, sometimes instead of doing something practical. 推究; 思考

He philosophized, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure. 他承認(rèn)自己反複推究不是因爲(wèi)他確定找到了真理，而是因爲(wèi)那給了他很多樂(lè)趣。

...a tendency to philosophize about racial harmony. ...一種推究種族和諧的傾曏。

2. philosophizingN-UNCOUNT

The general was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems. 那位將軍急於打斷那些高談濶論，著手解決更加緊急的問(wèn)題。