ruminate

verb

1. 沉思；认真思考
   to think deeply about sth

1. VERB 沉思;琢磨;认真考虑
   If you ruminate on something, 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。
2. VERB （动物）反刍
   When animals ruminate, 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。

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。
3. 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。
4. It is worthwhile to ruminate over his remarks.
   他的话值得玩味。
5. Donahoe then begins to ruminate on his eight years at eBay ( eBay), five of them as CEO.
   随后，多纳霍开始回顾自己在eBay度过的八年职业生涯，其中五年他都担任首席执行官一职。
6. However, new research is showing that some people only get worse by continuing to brood and ruminate.
   不过，最新的研究显示，有些人在反复回想之后，反而变得更糟了。
7. Don't ruminate on past affronts or injustices.
   莫要沉湎于过去所受的侮辱或者不公平。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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。
11. And subjects who tended to ruminate on their situation actually did better if they were assigned to the emotion-free writing.
    当那些倾向于反思自身情况的人被指派进行无情绪写作时，他们实际上做得更好。
12. 'People don't self-distance naturally; when they become angry, they naturally ruminate on it,' says Brad J. Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State and one of the study's co-authors.
    俄亥俄州立大学传播学和心理学教授、该研究报告作者之一布什曼（BradJ.Bushman）说，人们不会自然地进行自我疏离；当他们生气时，会很自然地沉迷于自己的情绪当中。
13. And the more we ruminate about a secret, the more we want to reveal it.
    对某个秘密考虑得越多，就越想公开这个秘密。
14. Study lead author Peggy Zoccola, an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio University in the United States, said: 'Researchers have asked people to report their tendency to ruminate, and then looked to see if it connected to physiological issues.
    该研究报告的第一作者、美国俄亥俄大学心理学助理教授佩吉？左可拉说：研究人员让人们报告她们陷入沉思的倾向性，然后研究这一倾向性是否与生理问题有关。
15. 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。
16. Don't over-generalise ('I can never hold down a relationship '), jump to conclusions ('I'll never finish this job') or ruminate endlessly.
    不要过分概括（比如想“我永远都控制不好这种关系”），不要妄下定论（比如想“这工作永远都做不完”），也不要总是不停地思考某件事。
17. In the process, it was measured how much the students worry, ruminate or obsess about something& three measures by which repetitive negative thinking is gauged.
    在此过程中，测量了学生们到底有多担心，忧虑或者困扰于某些事情&这是三种主要的反复出现的消极情绪。
18. Those who have a definite goal and do not need time to ruminate and explore will find little to complain about on a one-year course.
    那些有明确的目标、不需要时间来琢磨和思考的人会发现，一年制课程没有什么可抱怨的。
19. As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
    随着年龄的增长，人们开始对生活的变化无常冥思苦想。
20. They also tend to brood or ruminate more than satisficers do.
    他们也比满足化者容易陷入忧思。
21. 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。
22. He would ruminate, writing out the issues on his yellow pad.
    他会冥思苦想把问题写在他的黄色拍纸本上的。
23. Don't ruminate about worst-case scenarios.
    不要反复考虑最坏的情况。
24. Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate.
    毁灭这样教我思考默发。
25. With some luck, Greece will ruminate in the future about how it stuck to a narrow path in the early 21st century, and found honour and vindication for its labours.
    如果运气好的话，希腊可以在未来冥思在21世纪之初是如何困于狭路，并为自己经历的艰辛找回荣誉，证明这些艰辛都是值得的。
26. The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
    牛吃完草后开始反刍。
27. 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。
28. Thus it gives us a basis that we can improve the utilization ratio of ruminate protein.
    通过对这些影响因素的研究，可以掌握影响反刍动物蛋白质利用率的因素，从而为如何提高反刍动物蛋白质利用率提供依据。
29. 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。
30. Straw was the main by-product of crops and it was the important feed resource of the ruminate animal.
    秸秆是农作物的主要副产品，又是牛、羊等反刍动物的重要饲料资源。

verb

1. 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

2. chew the cuds
   1. cows ruminate