musing

英 [ˈmjuːzɪŋ]

美 [ˈmjuːzɪŋ]

n.  沉思; 冥想; 诉说想法
v.  沉思; 冥想; 沉思地自言自语
muse的现在分词

复数：musings　现在分词：musing　

BNC.33568 / COCA.17324

牛津词典

noun

• 沉思；冥想；诉说想法
  a period of thinking carefully about sth or telling people your thoughts about it
  1. We had to sit and listen to his musings on life.
     我们只好坐着听他谈论人生。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 沉思;冥想;若有所思地说(或写)
  If youmuseon something, you think about it, usually saying or writing what you are thinking at the same time.
  1. Many of the papers muse on the fate of the President...
     很多报纸都在揣测总统的命运。
  2. 'As a whole,' she muses, 'the 'organized church' turns me off'...
     她沉思道：“总的来说，我不喜欢‘制度森严的教会’。”
  3. He once mused that he would have voted Labour in 1964 had he been old enough.
     他曾思忖过，如果1964年时自己够年龄了，他就会投工党的票。
• N-COUNT (给画家、诗人或音乐家带来灵感的)女神，创作女神
  Amuseis a person, usually a woman, who gives someone, usually a man, a desire to create art, poetry, or music, and gives them ideas for it.
  1. Once she was a nude model and muse to French artist Henri Matisse.
     她曾是法国画家亨利·马蒂斯的人体模特和灵感女神。
  2. ...the muses who fuel his inspiration.
     给他以灵感的人们

英英释义

noun

• a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
  Synonym:contemplationreflectionreflexionruminationthoughtfulness

adj

• deeply or seriously thoughtful
  1. Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
  Synonym:broodingbroodycontemplativemeditativepensiveponderingreflectiveruminative

双语例句

• I stepped out musing, and almost walked over a vagabond who was eating his dinner on the curbstone.
  我一边沉思，一边走出去，差点没踩在一个流浪汉身上，他正坐在街沿石上吃饭。
• Several years ago Sir John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College, London, who was musing on this idea, realised that such a material would make a perfect lens.
  几年前，伦敦皇家大学的约翰？彭德瑞爵士（SirJohnPendry）对这个想法进行了深思，他意识到这样的材料将有助于制造出理想的透镜。
• The incongruous falsetto voice took on a musing note. At length the lady of the caravan shook off her fit of meditation.
  那个不相称的假嗓子里带着一种沉思的声调。最后车上那个女子抛弃了她那一阵的沉思。
• The cloudy day of July is long today, and I have been musing over all those games in life wherein I was loser.
  今天，七月的阴天是漫长的，我在默忆我生命中以我为失败者的一切游戏。
• Long after the meal, we were avidly comparing notes about favourite and least favourite dishes, musing about the contrasts in our group's range of tastes.
  吃过这餐之后很久，我们还热心地比较最喜欢和最不喜欢的菜品，细细思量我们这伙人口味上的差异。
• He was musing upon the rushing torrents of the river.
  他在凝望着激流奔腾的河水。
• Mr Watkins gets lost rambling among minor details, and prefers musing over questions to answering them.
  沃特金斯对细节的处理杂乱无章，思考问题重于回答问题。
• A psychiatrist would be less likely to put down anything he is musing about as diagnostic possibilities or write about what he feels the patient is leaving out, he said.
  他说，心理医生不太可能像从前那样，写下他所考虑到的一切诊断可能性，或者写下他觉得患者并未和盘托出的一些事情。
• Walking closer to the maple, I touched its rough skin, feeling its serenity after vicissitudes and musing over its spirit.
  我走近古树，用手抚摸那粗糙的皮肤，感受着这历经沧桑之后的宁静，品味着枫树的价值。
• The veteran worker's words set his mind musing.
  老工人的话使他沉思起来。