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

• 'People don't self-distance naturally; when they become angry, they naturally ruminate on it,' says Brad J. Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State and one of the study's co-authors.
  俄亥俄州立大学传播学和心理学教授、该研究报告作者之一布什曼（BradJ.Bushman）说，人们不会自然地进行自我疏离；当他们生气时，会很自然地沉迷于自己的情绪当中。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate.
  毁灭这样教我思考默发。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。