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

• 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。
• 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。
• Don't ruminate about worst-case scenarios.
  不要反复考虑最坏的情况。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。
• 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。
• The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them.
  你越反思负面的想法，你就越来越消极。
• The results showed that the introduced goats intake feeds and walk in daytime, ruminate, sleep, stand and lie down at night.
  研究结果表明，采食和游走行为发生在白天，反刍、睡眠、站立和躺卧多在夜间。
• However, new research is showing that some people only get worse by continuing to brood and ruminate.
  不过，最新的研究显示，有些人在反复回想之后，反而变得更糟了。