ruminate

英 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

美 [ˈruːmɪneɪt]

v.  沉思; 认真思考

过去式：ruminated　现在分词：ruminating　第三人称单数：ruminates　过去分词：ruminated　

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BNC.22105 / COCA.22163

牛津词典

verb

• 沉思；认真思考
  to think deeply about sth

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉思;琢磨;认真考虑
  If youruminate onsomething, 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。
• VERB （动物）反刍
  When animalsruminate, 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。

英英释义

verb

• 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
• chew the cuds
  1. cows ruminate

双语例句

• 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。
• Don't ruminate about worst-case scenarios.
  不要反复考虑最坏的情况。
• It is worthwhile to ruminate over his remarks.
  他的话值得玩味。
• 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。
• The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
  牛吃完草后开始反刍。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。