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

• 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。
• 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。
• Don't ruminate about worst-case scenarios.
  不要反复考虑最坏的情况。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。