contemplating

英 [ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈkɑːntəmpleɪtɪŋ]

v.  考虑; 思量; 思忖; 考虑接受(发生某事的可能性); 深思熟虑; 沉思; 苦思冥想
contemplate的现在分词

现在分词：contemplating　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 考虑;思量;思忖
  If youcontemplatean action, you think about whether to do it or not.
  1. For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor...
     有段时间，他考虑去当军医。
  2. She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
     她考虑为了孩子而离开。
• VERB 深思熟虑;沉思;苦思冥想
  If youcontemplatean idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time.
  1. As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future...
     那天晚上，他躺在医院的病床上，想到未来，他哭了起来。
  2. That makes it difficult to contemplate the idea that the present policy may not be sustainable.
     那让人难以认真思考这个可能，即目前的政策也许并不能持续下去。
• VERB 凝视;注视
  If youcontemplatesomething or someone, you look at them for a long time.
  1. He contemplated his hands, still frowning.
     他盯着自己的双手，眉头紧锁。

双语例句

• Happiness is not generally found in contemplating the past or future.
  研究人员说，深思你的过去或未来，通常是找不到幸福感的。
• In contemplating "the exceeding beauty of the earth" these people have found calmness and courage.
  在沉思「大地超绝之美」时，这些人找到了宁静和勇气。
• I'm not contemplating retiring.
  我尚未考虑退休问题。
• I hope you're not contemplating a jump?
  我希望你不是想跳下去吧？
• I lay in bed contemplating what I should do.
  我躺在床上思考该做什么。
• And I'm not contemplating it in this life.
  我这辈子并不打算这么做。
• He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company
  他继续暗示他确实在考虑对公司进行一次大改组。
• He is contemplating pawning his watch.
  他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
• In fact she was contemplating prospects too, but in a quite different way.
  事实上，她也在考虑着前程问题，不过这是个完全不同的前程。
• There are basically four steps when learning a new language: listening, speaking, contemplating, and understanding.
  当开始学习一个新的语言的基本四个步骤：听，说，思考，理解。