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词汇 ruminate
释义 ruminate
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈruː.mɪ.neɪt/ us /ˈruː.mə.neɪt/

ruminateverb[I] (THINK)


formal
to think carefully and for a long period about something: 沉思,长时间思考
She ruminated for weeks about whether to tell him or not.几个星期她一直在反复考虑是否要告诉他真相。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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
revisit
reweigh
rumination
run through someone's mind/headidiom
scratch your headidiom
weigh

ruminateverb[I] (EAT)


biology specialized
(of particular types of animal) to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again(动物)反刍,倒嚼
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Animal (non-human) behaviour
accidental
apex predator
beg
behave
behaviour
behavioural science
claw
fawn
gambol
groom
homing
housebroken
migrate
monogamous
monogamously
monogamy
murmuration
nocturnal
ravening
scent

ruminate | American Dictionary


ruminate
verb[ I ]
 fmlus/ˈru·məˌneɪt/
to think slowly and carefully:
He ruminated over his loss.

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ruminate
One such devotional practice was the making of rapiaria, or notebooks of especially valuable scriptural texts for ruminating during meditation.
I hope with all my heart they are only masticating and ruminating before they decide to swallow.
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A standing order made in 1961 allows the importation of ruminating animals and swine by the main zoological societies under suitable safeguards.
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I have spent a quite disproportionate part of my life thinking about cricket, playing cricket, ruminating about cricket and watching cricket.
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I have been ruminating about the financial policy that has been followed by this country in the last 10 years and about its effect upon the colonial world.
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They are ruminating on their chances of mere survival, let alone victory in the coming fight.
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Later, she ruminates that she may be in love with both men.
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She ruminates on finding morals in everything around her.
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Much paper has been consumed by historians of science ruminating on this idea.
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S/he ruminates about the death and longs for a reunion with the departed, feeling unsure of his/her identity and place in the world.
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He spends the rest of the evening ruminating on the problem.
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He ruminates on the nature of government and morality.
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The play ruminates upon the idea that any two individuals are connected by at most five others.
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Leviticus cites explicitly the camel, because it ruminates but does not have a cloven hoof; the hyrax and the hare are excluded on the same grounds.
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819 tification and the reliance on rumination among girls, the combination of perceived selfdiscrepancy and tendencies to ruminate in response to failure may be particularly problematic for adolescent girls.
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