| 词汇 | ponder |
| 释义 | ponder verb[ I or T ] formaluk /ˈpɒn.dər/ us /ˈpɑːn.dɚ/ C2 to think carefully about something, especially for a noticeable length of time: 沉思，默想，考虑 She sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game.她在椅背上靠了一会儿，思考下一步棋该怎么走。 Synonyms contemplate meditate museformal reflect ruminate speculate to think carefully about something considerDon't make any decisions before you've considered the matter. contemplateHe lay in a hospital bed contemplating his future. ponderShe sat back for a minute to ponder her next move in the game. mull overI need a few days to mull things over before I decide. reflectI spent a lot of time reflecting on what he'd said. agonizeShe agonized for days before agreeing to take the job. Thinking and contemplating a brown studyidiom agonize agonize over/about something beard-stroking bethink harbour heart-searching hit on/upon something I/we'll (have to) seeidiom in the cold light of dayidiom introspect navel reckon reflection reweigh rumination run through someone's mind/headidiom scratch your headidiom self-contemplation weigh ponder | American Dictionaryponder verb[ I/T ] us/ˈpɑn·dər/ to consider something carefully for a long time: [ T ]She ponders the reaction she’ll receive. [ I ]The back porch is a quiet place where I can ponder. Examples of ponderponder One might ponder why this is the case. Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons. There is ample material in this book to ponder. So much for keeping an open mind when reading the sources, developing research questions and pondering hypotheses. Indeed, these philosophical questions are as important for clinicians to ponder as questions concerning how best to negotiate different explanatory models of disease. Let us first ponder the status of positive moral standards. They give readers things to ponder, rather than solutions - which reflects the authors' disinclination to create rigid and unrealistic category boundaries. After pondering them a bit, we might even conclude that they contradict one another in practice. The first issue is to ponder whether it would be regarded as 'evidence' at all? We have pondered the problem only to come up with the suggestion of retaining the present, pleasant waterfront as is. Nevertheless, these are two stimulating books and there is a great deal to ponder in both of them. Suffice it to say that this book provides both the dedicated creolist and interested nonspecialist with a great deal to ponder. His purpose was to get people to stop and ponder the words he used and to thus shake them out of accepted habits of thought. The incident presents an opportunity to ponder if a reconsideration is in order. Let us ponder whether to add two more people. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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