meditate

英 ['medɪteɪt] 美 ['medɪteɪt]

• v. 沉思；冥想；考虑；计划

英英释义

Verb:

1. reflect deeply on a subject;

   "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"
   "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"
   "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
   

2. think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes;

   "He is meditating in his study"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. He meditates on his past life.
   他沉思着过去的生活。
2. These fields had subtle aromas that I loved to sit and meditate in.
   这些田野散发淡淡的芳香，我喜欢坐在那里冥想。
3. I hope you can meditate it before you make decision .
   我希望你做决定前仔细考虑一下。
4. Clever people should meditate on the problems before acting.
   聪明的人应该是在采取行动前先仔细考虑一下。
5. They meditate a change in the office arrangements
   他们计划改变一下办事处的安排。

经典引文

• He has renounced the world; he does nothing but meditate.

  出自： R. K. Narayan

• My study was understood to be private ground where the Great Mind could meditate undisturbed.

  出自： J. R. Ackerley

• He frequently meditated on the moral qualities of sound diet.

  出自： A. Bell

词汇搭配

• meditate on 沉思
• meditate upon 沉思
• meditate the muse 把精神放在作诗上...

词义辨析

think，deliberate，meditate，muse，reason，reflect，speculate

• 这些动词均有“思考、判断、思索”之意。
• think一般用词，指开动脑筋形成看法或得出结论的脑力活动。不着重结论是否正确，见解是否有用。
• deliberate指缓慢、按部就班地作仔细而认真的思考或判断。
• meditate语气较强，指认真地长时间集中精力进行思考。
• muse通常指漫无目的地猜想。
• reason指根据资料、证据或事实进行推断，作出结论或判断的逻辑思维活动。
• reflect指回想或回顾，侧重认真而冷静地反复地思考某个问题，尤指对已发生事情的思索。
• speculate指推论过程，隐含在证据不足的基础上作出推测或设想。

近反义词

【近义词】

• ponder 沉思
• contemplate 注视
• think 认为
• consider 考虑
• deliberate 深思熟虑的
• reflect 反映
• mull over 仔细考虑
• muse 沉思
• ruminate 深思
• turn over 滚动
• study 研究
• speculate 推测
• weigh 衡量
• brood 一窝
• pore 毛孔
• mull 思索
• think over 仔细考虑
• chew over 仔细考虑
• reason 原因
• excogitate 想出