soul-searching
英 [ˈsəʊl sɜːtʃɪŋ]
美 [ˈsoʊl sɜːrtʃɪŋ]
n. 反省; 内省
牛津词典
noun
- 反省；内省
the careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, for example in order to reach the correct decision or solution to sth
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 自我剖析；深刻反省
Soul-searchingis a long and careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, especially when you are trying to make a difficult moral decision or thinking about something that has gone wrong.- My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
这一年来，我真的进行了许多深刻的反思，努力地找出自己的生活中到底哪里出了问题。
- My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
英英释义
noun
- a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
双语例句
- And when I did some serious soul-searching.
当我严肃地自我反省。 - As the progress comes to a close, at the end of over a year of dedication, experimentation, and soul-searching, we believe that we've achieved that which we were challenged to realize.
当过程临近尾声，在一年多的投入、尝试与深思之后，我们相信我们已经完成了挑战。 - After the handover in 1997, Hong Kong was soul-searching because the perception was that it would become marginalised in Greater China, she says.
1997年回归后，香港进行了深刻的反思，因为当时有人觉得香港将在大中华区被边缘化，她表示。 - After many hours of soul-searching, he decided to admit his guilt.
反思了好多小时后，他决定承认自己的罪行。 - There has been some self-examination and soul-searching within the economics profession since the onset of the financial crisis.
自金融危机爆发以来，经济学界内部进行了一些自我审查和反省。 - The complaint was about the ordinary telephone, television and even back gardens, which, in the 20th century, provoked the sort of soul-searching we are seeing today.
这番抱怨针对的是寻常的电话、电视机乃至后花园，在20世纪，这些事物激起了与我们今日一样的反思。 - It seemed as if each of us had been hiding our soul-searching from the other.
我们两人似乎一直都拒绝与对方进行心灵的沟通。 - Sometimes the conversation might be a lot of give and take, advice and speculation, soul-searching and puzzle-solving, but sometimes you just need to be a giant ear for an hour.
有时候我们的对话是为了交换意见，提出建议和思考，为了解决难题而深思熟虑，但有时候你只需要暂时扮演一只大耳朵。 - My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
这一年来，我真的进行了许多深刻的反思，努力地找出自己的生活中到底哪里出了问题。 - Five years ago, I was going through some serious soul-searching. I was just back in the States after living abroad.
五年前，我一直在认真进行自我反思。当时我正从国外回来，对于前途非常迷茫。