philosophize

1. V-I If you say that someone is philosophizing, you mean that they are talking or thinking about important subjects, sometimes instead of doing something practical. 推究; 思考

He philosophized, he admitted, not because he was certain of establishing the truth, but because it gave him pleasure. 他承認(rèn)自己反復(fù)推究不是因?yàn)樗_定找到了真理，而是因?yàn)槟墙o了他很多樂趣。

...a tendency to philosophize about racial harmony. ...一種推究種族和諧的傾向。

2. philosophizingN-UNCOUNT

The general was anxious to cut short the philosophizing and get down to more urgent problems. 那位將軍急于打斷那些高談闊論，著手解決更加緊急的問題。