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contemplative

/kuhn-tem-pluh-tiv, kon-tuhm-pley-, -tem-/US // kənˈtɛm plə tɪv, ˈkɒn təmˌpleɪ-, -tɛm- //UK // (ˈkɒntɛmˌpleɪtɪv, -təm-, kənˈtɛmplə-) //

沉思的,沉思,深思熟虑,沉思型

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to or characterized by contemplation: a contemplative mind.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person devoted to contemplation, as a monk.

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Examples

  • This year’s Broccoli City headliner is Lil Baby, the deft Georgia rapper who does his finest work in intimate chirps and contemplative squeaks.

  • Instead, the book is an unnerving, contemplative look at solitude and the connections we make with the outside world.

  • Stowaway pulls plenty of pages from the generic space-movie handbook, but it still builds a mood of dread and contemplative ennui, finding its resolution in a final, somber shot.

  • The reader gets to know this contemplative narrator through a series of vignettes that showcase her witty observational skills and Lahiri’s piercing prose.

  • One exterior path will mimic a mountain climb, while the other will provide access to more contemplative outdoor spaces, for reading, chilling or checking email.

  • But it was that period in her life, when her career was just taking shape, that produces her most contemplative answers.

  • I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.

  • Though the scene is spare, the effect is powerful: bright, solemn, contemplative.

  • Scott's film is less contemplative and more grounded than McCarthy's script, with most of the philosophical digressions excised.

  • But which I think has been slightly overstated – there's a contemplative upside to living in and among minimal sculptural forms.

  • Thereafter he went into a contemplative frame of mind to the docks, and found Sam Blake as usual in his bunk.

  • An upright, phlegmatic man who finally led the contemplative life of one of the ancient hermits.

  • It was Tanqueray who kept on looking at him with clear, contemplative eyes under brows no longer irritable.

  • He was merely a friend of her aunt's, and from that contemplative position he never stepped down.

  • The fish will regard with contemplative indifference every other lure but a close imitation of that particular insect.