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cogitate

/koj-i-teyt/US // ˈkɒdʒ ɪˌteɪt //UK // (ˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪt) //

思考,思考一下,深思熟虑,思考问题

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cog·i·tat·ed, cog·i·tat·ing.

    • : to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    cog·i·tat·ed, cog·i·tat·ing.

    • : to think about; devise: to cogitate a scheme.

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Examples

  • As his characters cogitate and self-medicate, scheme and philosophize, his subject is less the content of their thoughts than the mind contemplating itself.

  • Nevertheless, the media machine will cogitate for the next 48 hours on the supposed winners and losers.

  • Let me see; let me think, reflect, cogitate, tickle the thinker.

  • It is chiefly this class of holiday-makers that we have in our minds whilst we cogitate the hints in these pages.

  • The word "Coger" does not imply codger, or a drinker of cogs, but comes from cogite, to cogitate.

  • There on the low stone wall bordering on the east the property of Captain Orrin Eldridge, he seated himself to rest and cogitate.

  • He will lift his eyebrows with a certain look of contempt, and continue to cogitate—about nothing.