phrasal verbphr vTHINK ABOUTto think about all the parts of something carefully before deciding or planning exactly what to do 仔细考虑
He went for a walk to think things out.
他去走了走,把事情想想清楚。
The proposal needs to be carefully thought out.
这项提议需要认真加以考虑。
think out what/how/whether etc
She had thought out what she was going to say.
她把要说的话都仔细考虑好了。
Examples from the Corpus
think out• In the sunlight of the next morning Maggie decided to go off by herself and think it all out.• Let's simmer down and think things out.• He goes into the same song, our song, I think, looking out at his flakyaudience.• I think I was out for an hour-but it could have been more than that, it could have been less.• I thought this constitutedrevenge of a fairly high order, thought it all out in advance.• I try to think my way out of it.• Chuck, I been thinking I sold out the truth last night when I said your slavery was a country thing.• I still think they're out there.
think out what/how/whether etc• But she is essentially faced with thinking out what she believes truth to be.• Lessons went wrong, of course, but not often because the students had failed to think out what they wanted to do.