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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
  牛吃完草后开始反刍。
• It is worthwhile to ruminate over his remarks.
  他的话值得玩味。
• 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。