contemplative

1. 沉思默想的；深思熟虑的
   thinking quietly and seriously about sth
   1. She was in contemplative mood.
      她陷入沉思之中。
2. （对宗教问题）冥想的，敛心默祷的
   spending time thinking deeply about religious matters
   1. the contemplative life (= life in a religious community)
      宗教上的默观生活

1. ADJ-GRADED 沉思的;冥思的
   Someone who is contemplative thinks deeply, or is thinking in a serious and calm way.
   1. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap...
      马丁是个不爱讲话、喜欢沉思默想的小伙子。
   2. I went for long, contemplative walks by the river...
      我沿着河走了很久，默默沉思着。
   3. Life there is slow and contemplative.
      那里的生活节奏舒缓，宜于沉思。

1. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap
   马丁是个不爱讲话、喜欢沉思默想的小伙子。
2. I went for long, contemplative walks by the river
   我沿着河走了很久，默默沉思着。
3. Life there is slow and contemplative.
   那里的生活节奏舒缓，宜于沉思。
4. Cedarquist looked after him with contemplative interest.
   西达奎斯特若有所思地、满有兴味地冲着他的背影望望。
5. One day while taking a contemplative walk he came to a well, looked into it, and saw his donkey shape in the mirror-like water.
   有一次，这小主人出去散步，脑子正在思考着甚么，不觉来到了一口井边。他往水中一瞧，见水面清澈如镜，那儿有自己的驴子模样。
6. The natural disaster is cruel but actual which made us scared but contemplative.
   自然灾害是残酷的，这使我们感到更加害怕之外还有沉思（作文地带觉得这个词翻译的不到位，请大家指教，谢谢。）
7. In many aboriginal cultures, a question will be answered only after a period of contemplative silence.
   在许多土著文化中，一个问题提出后，只有在沉默中思考之后，才会有人回答。
8. In his new book ( in reality, a collaboration with several colleagues), Yan presents a softer and more contemplative side.
   在他的新书中（实际上是与几位同事合著），阎学通表现出更为柔和与深思的一面。
9. His daughter looks back on a man in search of free expression and a more contemplative way of life.
   他的女儿回忆了这个男人如何追求表达自由与更富于思省的生活方式。
10. On the contrary, he had to think of everything familiar to him, in his contemplative moods and in his wanderings about the house, as being to be parted with; and hence the many things he had to think of, all day long.
    相反的，当他在房屋里四处漫步的时候，他不得不想到他所熟悉的一切事物，因为他即将与它们分离；因此他整天就不得不想到许多事情。
11. Carl Ryden has issued this exact message to contemplative types at big companies.
    卡尔·赖登（CarlRyden）对那些沉思冥想的大公司已经发出了确切信息。
12. The love of a father for his son or daughter, where it is love at all, is a broad, generous, sad, contemplative giving without thought of return.
    父亲对儿子和女儿的爱，倘使有爱的话，是广大的、慷慨的、认真的，深思远虑而不求报答的给予。
13. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one's interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic, but not unduly emotional.
    我不是说对他们应该毫不关心，但是这种关心应该是冷静思考性的，而且，如果可能的话，是慈善救济性的，但不要过于动感情。
14. A roof terrace allows users to discover a contemplative space defined by the cityscape.
    屋顶平台在城市形态的作用下为使用者提供了一处静思空间。
15. I guess I'm just feeling contemplative this evening.
    可能今晚我是有点入定了吧。
16. Had you been a hierarch monk meditating before the temple wall, I would have been burning in the hall as that stick of incense, in your company, for a while, with your contemplative solitude.
    你若曾是面壁的高僧，我必是殿前的那一炷香，焚烧着，陪伴过你一段静穆的时光。
17. Let's join hands and hearts as a contemplative community and act together in the love of excellence, the gratitude of being and the hope for peace and prosperity.
    大家一齐以一个冥想的群体，联手和一心一意，于卓超之爱中，感恩现在和希望和平繁荣来一起行动。
18. If a few of us became contemplative, kind and compassionate even if it is for a few hours because of this incident, may the merit from it make little Wang Yue be reborn in the pure realms.
    如果因为这件事，我们当中的一些人，变得懂得深思、懂得怜悯，即便这个善念只有短短数个小时，愿如是功德能让小悦悦投生净土。
19. According to our Western understanding, the awakening of Kundalini energy is the awakening of the life force within our bodies, and is usually stimulated by contemplative, meditative practices.
    根据我们西方的理解，唤醒生命能量，是唤醒我们身体内生命的力量，它通常被刺激经由静观与打坐。
20. Life, the most important is to live a comfortable, quiet, contemplative life, if just a few decades to reach such a realm, it shall not live in vain.
    人生在世，最重要的是过一种舒适、宁静、沉思的生活，如果短短的几十年能够达到这样的境界，那就不虚此生。
21. Her mood was calm and contemplative.
    她情绪平静，似在沉思。
22. For if every way to a solution is barred, one would have to regard any action in this world as entirely ineffective, and one would arrive finally at a contemplative philosophy.
    因为如果每一条解决事物之道被阻断了，那么我们就不得不视在这世界上的任何行为都是徒劳无益的，我们最后就会走到一种瞑想的哲学里去。
23. A contemplative man, but an active man.
    一个沉思的人，同时也是个活跃的人。
24. Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command;
    如果他的才能仅仅在冥想，那他这一生也没什么可说，可他的精力和实际能力仿佛生来就是为了从事伟业和统领。
25. In this sense one can say that the documentation of time& based art erases the difference between vita activa and vita contemplative.
    从这个意义上人们可以说对时间为基础的艺术的文献记录抹杀了行动的生活与沉思的生活的差别。
26. Along the dusty road is a meandering, contemplative and soul-stirring journey.
    沿着蜿蜒曲折的道路尘土飞扬，思惟、惊心动魄的旅程。
27. December has always been the high month for those of a contemplative turn.
    对于那些性喜沉思的人来说十二月可是最合适的月份。
28. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood.
    当时他正坐在苹果树下思考问题，突然一只苹果从树上掉下，让他产生了这一想法。
29. It's hard to believe that both of you love a contemplative holiday.
    很难想象，你们两个人都喜爱沉静的假期。
30. If same time undertakes plant perfume and listen hearing contemplative music, can achieve favorable hairdressing result more, release interior toxin slowly.
    假如同一时间进行植物薰香和聆听着冥想音乐，更可达到良好的美容效果，并慢慢释放心灵毒素。

noun

1. a person devoted to the contemplative life

adj

1. deeply or seriously thoughtful
   1. Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man

   Synonym:    broodingbroodymeditativemusingpensiveponderingreflectiveruminative