ruminate是什么意思_ruminate怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

reflect deeply on a subject;"I mulled over the events of the afternoon"
"philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"
"The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

中英词源

ruminate 反刍，沉思，思考

rumin,瘤胃，反刍动物的第一个胃，-ate,使。引申词义沉思，思考，比喻用法。

ruminate (v.): 1530s, "to turn over in the mind," also "to chew cud" (1540s), from Latin ruminatus, past participle of ruminare "to chew the cud; turn over in the mind," from rumen (genitive ruminis) "gullet," of uncertain origin. Related: Ruminated; ruminating.

词态变化

第三人称单数 ruminates;
过去式 ruminated;
过去分词 ruminated;
现在分词 ruminating;
名词 rumination;

权威造句

1. It is worth while to ruminate over his remarks.: 他的话值得玩味.

2. As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.: 随着年龄的增长, 人们开始对生活的变化无常冥思苦想.

3. Obsessional personalities commonly ruminate excessively about death.: 有强迫症的人通常过多地思考死亡的问题。

4. He would ruminate, writing out the issues on his yellow pad.: 他会冥思苦想把问题写在他的黄色拍纸本上的.

5. Nixon went to ruminate about how Brezhnev understood American power and Nixon in particular.: 尼克松接着又追述勃列日涅夫怎样理解美国的力量,特别是尼克松的力量.

近反义词

study 研究

think over 仔细考虑

meditate 沉思

ponder 沉思

reflect 反映

chew over 仔细考虑

contemplate 注视

mull over 仔细考虑

muse 沉思

pore 毛孔

chew 咀嚼

graze 放牧

browse 浏览

crop 农作物

pasture 牧场

chew the cud 反刍(深思)

cogitate 思考

deliberate 深思熟虑的

mull 思索

excogitate 想出

speculate 推测

相似短语

ruminate over v. 反复思考

ruminate endosperm 嚼烂状胚乳

单词分析

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