ruminate

英 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

美 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

v.  沉思; 认真思考

过去式：ruminated　现在分词：ruminating　第三人称单数：ruminates　过去分词：ruminated　

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BNC.22105 / COCA.22163

牛津词典

verb

• 沉思；认真思考
  to think deeply about sth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉思;琢磨;认真考虑
  If youruminate onsomething, you think about it very carefully.
  1. He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life...
     他认真地考虑了美国生活中典型的严重浪费问题。
  2. 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。
• VERB （动物）反刍
  When animalsruminate, they bring food back from their stomach into their mouth and chew it again.
  1. He wanted to have a look at the two oxen, both ruminating without raising their eyes.
     他想看看那两头牛，它们都在反刍，眼睛都不抬一下。

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:chew overthink overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overspeculate
• chew the cuds
  1. cows ruminate

双语例句

• He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life
  他认真地考虑了美国生活中典型的严重浪费问题。
• Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate.
  毁灭这样教我思考默发。
• He chose Wednesday, the day of the Fed's pronouncement, to ruminate, both in a note to clients and in the Financial Times, that the rally was entering a bubble phase.
  他选择在周三美联储发表上述言论的同一天，在客户研究报告和英国《金融时报》上进行深入分析，认为目前的反弹正进入泡沫阶段。
• 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。
• The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them.
  你越反思负面的想法，你就越来越消极。
• A positive aspect of living in isolation was that I had ample time in which to ruminate over the meaning of words and precepts that I had known and accepted all my life.
  如果说被拘禁在家有什么好处的话，那就是我有了充裕的时间来反思我一生中所了解和接受的词汇和观点的意义。
• And reflection can turn ugly, as when we ruminate about some past insult or error.
  当我们纠结于过去的一些侮辱或错误时，反思可能并非好事。
• The results showed that the introduced goats intake feeds and walk in daytime, ruminate, sleep, stand and lie down at night.
  研究结果表明，采食和游走行为发生在白天，反刍、睡眠、站立和躺卧多在夜间。
• The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
  牛吃完草后开始反刍。
• They discovered that when study participants were asked to ruminate on a stressful incident, their levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of tissue inflammation, rose.
  他们发现，当他们让研究的参与者们反复思考一件让人倍感压力的事情时，参与者体内的C反应蛋白水平会上升。C反应蛋白是人体组织炎症的一个标记。