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词汇 contemplative
释义 contemplative
adjective
uk /kənˈtem.plə.tɪv/ us /kənˈtem.plə.t̬ɪv/
involving quiet and serious thought for a period of time: 深思熟虑的;沉思的
Her mood was calm and contemplative.她的情绪是平静的, 深沉内敛的。
People began to listen to music in contemplative silence.人们开始在沉思默想中聆听音乐。
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contemplation
Maxwell's life was not outwardly exciting or full of incident, but quiet and contemplative.
She was beginning to yearn for a contemplative life.
He wasn't always as calmly contemplative as he was in his late work.
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pensively
reflective
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sunk
thoughtfully
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Examples of contemplative


contemplative
Mostly the songs are slow, still, ecstatically contemplative, extended in their development.
What signifies the projects of contemplative men if the hammer and the lathe are not employed to call their ideas into existence?
By these speculations, contemplative heads, who else might dangerously have busied themselves about state affairs, were finally moped and diverted.
Additionally, both are dark, contemplative spaces with controlled lighting - the museum receives no daylight and the library has a small window above its built-in desk.
In all of these works, carefully conceived microphone techniques create intimate experiences which draw the audience into a contemplative world of small ethereal sounds.
My fourth point is that a contemplative archaeology is a 'path of preparation' that leads beyond archaeology's contemporary anchorage in traditional anthropocentric metaphysics.
In this sense, the largest or greatest pleasure completes the most excellent kind of activity, namely, contemplative activity.
It begins with alternating strands of quiet contemplative and lively dance-like music and then, after a fluttering settling section, closes with serene slow music.
If the contemplative themselves have to reconcile the active and the contemplative lives within, this process is mirrored, as it were, externally.
Visitors arriving at the picnic area may sit on the grass collectively or enter the contemplative rooms individually, departing the way they came.
In fact all three movements end in a fading pianissimo, lending the work an elegiac, contemplative character.
Interlacing solos shape the fabric of this serene, contemplative slow movement, weaving a fragile, kaleidoscopic skein of gossamer beauty.
Those who are truly contemplative and have renounced the world are supported by the worldly.
Its doom-laden atmosphere does not preclude contemplative passages, but the implacability of its gradual build-up into a massive climax is memorably disquieting.
In many religious and contemplative traditions, age has been considered a symbol for wisdom and transcendence.
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