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

• 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。
• Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate.
  毁灭这样教我思考默发。
• 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。
• '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。
• The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
  牛吃完草后开始反刍。
• He chose Wednesday, the day of the Fed's pronouncement, to ruminate, both in a note to clients and in the Financial Times, that the rally was entering a bubble phase.
  他选择在周三美联储发表上述言论的同一天，在客户研究报告和英国《金融时报》上进行深入分析，认为目前的反弹正进入泡沫阶段。
• 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。
• It is worthwhile to ruminate over his remarks.
  他的话值得玩味。
• 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。
• 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。