Word familyadjectivecontemplablecontemplativenouncontemplantcontemplationcontemplatistcontemplativenesscontemplatoradverbcontemplativelyverbcontemplate
The monks spend an hour in contemplation each morning.
那些修道士每天早上默想一小时。
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contemplation• He, too, made simplifications, but slowly, after studied reflection and contemplation.• Schopenhauer's position was that lyriccombinescontemplation and the individual will.• Wente uses the hour for contemplation and study.• Like a dreamer, the Apolline artist is absorbed in contemplation of something outside himself and does not identify with it.• I endeavored to learn from GeneralLee what movements he had in contemplation, or what he next expected from General Grant.• The average time given over to its contemplation was estimated at one hour.• It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanentcontemplation of their childhood.• From the contemplation of this inescapablejudgment he turned his face resolutely away.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CONTEMPLATION | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤quiet, silent靜思;默想▸➤deep, serious深思;認真的思索VERB + CONTEMPLATION➤be deep in, be lost in陷入沉思;想得出了神◇She was lost in contemplation of the scene in front of her.她出神地望着眼前這一幕。PREPOSITION➤in contemplation (of)在沉思中◇He spent many hours in deep contemplation.他深思了好幾個鐘頭。➤contemplation of對⋯的沉思◇the contemplation of beauty對美的沉思