| 词汇 | pondering |
| 释义 | pondering present participle ofponder 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 grapple harbour heart-searching hit on/upon something I/we'll (have to) seeidiom in the cold light of dayidiom introspect navel reckon revisit reweigh rumination run through someone's mind/headidiom scratch your headidiom weigh Examples of ponderingpondering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Rare species in communities of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons. So much for keeping an open mind when reading the sources, developing research questions and pondering hypotheses. But it stops short of confronting us with a paradox worth pondering. After pondering them a bit, we might even conclude that they contradict one another in practice. This should alert us to two things when pondering the measurement of resilience in socioeconomic systems. Further intuition about how the rules for application and abstraction interact can be obtained by pondering on the following example. In pondering the nature of this reciprocal relationship, it is important to consider three facts. Therefore, studies based on real patient data are probably of much more value for the decision maker pondering allocation of resources. Rare species in community of tropical insect herbivores: pondering the mystery of singletons. Two points came to mind after hours of pondering. In sum, this is a collection of studies well worth reading and pondering, so long as one does not look for too clear a thread linking them together. Which form he is discussing may perhaps be put to one side for the moment in favour of pondering his term 'rebriche'. Pondering globalisation in the spring of 2000, few if any of these youths yielded to fantasies of a utopian or catastrophic dispensation for their town or their country. Those are words well worth pondering by people who are inclined to indulge in too much wishful thinking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no point in pondering an entrepreneur-friendly climate or lifelong learning, if we fail to deliver. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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