chew over

英 [tʃuː ˈəʊvə(r)]

美 [tʃuː ˈoʊvər]

仔细考虑; 充分讨论

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 反复思考;不断考虑
  If youchewsomethingover, you keep thinking about it.
  1. He tends to chew things over too much in his mind...
     他这个人就爱在心里反复琢磨事儿。
  2. Goldstone chewed over the idea further.
     戈德斯通进一步考虑了这个问题。

英英释义

verb

• reflect deeply on a subject
  1. I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  2. philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  3. The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
  Synonym:think overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overruminatespeculate

双语例句

• I'll chew the problem over for a few days.
  这个问题我会仔细思考几天。
• Why don't we do lunch sometime and chew this over?
  我们为何不找个时间边用午餐，边仔细讨论一下这个问题？
• Banality weakens our intellectual, spiritual and ethical muscles, rendering us flabby thinkers, unable or unwilling to chew over the difficult matter of experience and make it part of us.
  平庸削弱我们的智力、精神乃至伦理力量，把我们塑造成有气无力的思考者，没有能力或不愿意咀嚼经验中艰涩的事物，并使之成为我们的一部分。
• Let's chew over the idea before making any decisions.
  在下结论前，让我们再讨论一次。
• Goldstone chewed over the idea further.
  戈德斯通进一步考虑了这个问题。
• Each blogger is capable of bias and slander, but, taken as a group, bloggers offer the searcher after truth boundless material to chew over.
  每个博客都有可能抱有偏见和说些诽谤性的话，但是作为整体，博客们为寻找真相的人们提供了大量值得仔细琢磨的材料。
• Developing countries chew up over half of the world's energy and hold most of its foreign-exchange reserves.
  发展中国家一方面咀嚼着世界能源的多数，另一方面把持着外汇储备的大半。
• Officials meet regularly to chew over the future of the company.
  官员们定期见在商讨公司的未来。
• He tends to chew things over too much in his mind
  他这个人就爱在心里反复琢磨事儿。
• It's an interesting suggestion, but we need a bit longer to chew it over.
  这是个很好的建议，但我们仍需要更多一点时间对它加以考虑。