contemplate

1. V-T If you contemplate an action, you think about whether to do it or not. 考慮

For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor. 他曾一度考慮做一名軍醫(yī)。

2. V-T If you contemplate an idea or subject, you think about it carefully for a long time. 對…考慮再三

As he lay in his hospital bed that night, he cried as he contemplated his future. 那天晚上他躺在醫(yī)院病床上，當他反復考慮自己的未來時他哭了。

3. contemplationN-UNCOUNT 考慮再三

It is a place of quiet contemplation. 這是一個適合靜靜深思的地方。

4. V-T If you contemplate something or someone, you look at them for a long time. 凝視

He contemplated his hands, still frowning. 他凝視著他的雙手，依然皺著眉頭。

5. contemplationN-UNCOUNT 凝視

He was lost in the contemplation of the landscape for a while. 他沉湎在對風景的凝視中好一會兒。