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。
• In the process, it was measured how much the students worry, ruminate or obsess about something& three measures by which repetitive negative thinking is gauged.
  在此过程中，测量了学生们到底有多担心，忧虑或者困扰于某些事情&这是三种主要的反复出现的消极情绪。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They also tend to brood or ruminate more than satisficers do.
  他们也比满足化者容易陷入忧思。
• As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
  随着年龄的增长，人们开始对生活的变化无常冥思苦想。