Contemplate

(verb.) consider as a possibility; 'I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job'.

(verb.) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; 'contemplate one's navel'.

手打:威特

• Let them look abroad and contemplate the scenes which were enacting around them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My dear son, you contemplate an absence of a week, I think? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We have nothing but one single dye to contemplate, in order to comprehend one of the most curious operations of the understanding. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It makes a striking and lively picture from whatsoever point you contemplate it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Do you contemplate undeceiving Sir Leicester to-night? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• And I understand he is a naturaliSt. Mr. Farebrother, my dear sir, is a man deeply painful to contemplate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In short, the men contemplate mutiny and murder. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapor-walled landscape. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I drew up all the instructions for the contemplated move, and kept them in my pocket until I should hear of the junction of our troops at Jackson. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This proposal of his, this plan of marrying and continuing at Hartfieldthe more she contemplated it, the more pleasing it became. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• This was my homely thought, as I contemplated the box-tree. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• In this frame of mind, I not only abandoned my contemplated visit to Mrs. Ablewhite--I even shrank from encountering Gabriel Betteredge himself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Watt’s patents of 1769 and 1784 contemplated the application of his steam engines to carriages running on land. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Why, if Zat Arras even dreamed that I contemplated such a thing he would have my heart cut out of me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I hope we are friends, was the unmoved reply; while he still watched the rising of the moon, which he had been contemplating as I approached. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Madame Defarge, with her arms folded, sat in the morning light and heat, contemplating the wine-shop and the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Mr. Bucket looks at him as if his face were a vista of some miles in length and he were leisurely contemplating the same. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Contemplating the reproduction, he seemed to see, for the second time, in the appeal and in the confession of weakness, a little fear. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My guardian stood before me, contemplating the birds, and I had no need to look beyond him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I lighted on you, Mr. Barsad, coming out of the prison of the Conciergerie while I was contemplating the walls, an hour or more ago. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I had no notion that he liked me so very much, said Harriet, contemplating the letter. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Why should a state want a strategic frontier unless it contemplates war? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You mean, my man, that the crew contemplates mutiny? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• As on the other hand, the facility assists the fancy in a small removal, but takes off from its force when it contemplates any considerable distance. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It is a little document to do so much; and Traddles contemplates it, as it lies upon my desk, half in admiration, half in awe. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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