pensive 的定义
- dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive mood.
- expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness: a pensive adagio.
pensive 近义词
meditative, solemn
更多pensive例句
- One of us cautious and pensive, one of us quick and outspoken.
- Hemingway is shown on p. 89, pensive with rifle at a pheasant shoot in Idaho.
- Venus was the quiet one: pensive and observant of everything around her.
- Another image features the First Lady in a pensive pose, wearing a black Michael Kors sweater and ball skirt.
- It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in Southern Gothic.
- His face was vacant, his eyes pensive, as he stood there undisturbed by the flow of a language he did not understand.
- The elegance of his stature and the pensive melancholy of his classic features invested him with a peculiar power of fascination.
- His little brother Etienne, the tiniest mite in the regiment, looks pensive.
- Ruth was too shy to keep up the conversation by any remark of her own, although his gentle, pensive manner was very winning.
- The poet's lyre has not many strings, and the strains of sadness, of pensive melancholy, are almost absent.