pensive

英 [ˈpensɪv]

美 [ˈpensɪv]

adj.  沉思的; 忧伤的; 忧戚的

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BNC.22406 / COCA.18665

牛津词典

adj.

• 沉思的；忧伤的；忧戚的
  thinking deeply about sth, especially because you are sad or worried
  1. a pensive mood
     沉重的心情
  2. to look pensive
     神情忧伤

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沉思的；忧思的
  If you arepensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially something that worries you slightly.
  1. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
     他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。

英英释义

adj

• showing pensive sadness
  1. the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
  Synonym:wistful
• 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:broodingbroodycontemplativemeditativemusingponderingreflectiveruminative

双语例句

• Mrs Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.
  丁太太举起蜡烛，我分辨出一张温和的脸，极像山庄上那位年轻夫人，但是在表情上更显得沉思而且和蔼。
• When he was gone, Amy, who had been pensive all evening, said suddenly, as if busy over some new idea," Is Laurie an accomplished boy?"
  待劳瑞回家了，沉思了整整一晚上的安米突然开口了，似乎脑子里有了新想法，“劳瑞是个有才华的男生吗？”
• Suddenly it struck me that several of my close friends kept, somewhere in their houses, an image of me dissolving in laughter. I've always preferred a rather wistful, pensive image of myself.
  突然，我醒悟到几个自己的亲密朋友，在她们的家中的某个地方，都有一幅我融于大笑中的画面。
• The woman in this painting has a pensive smile.
  画中的女人笑容很哀怨。
• He had observed that miss keelder looked pensive.
  他注意到茎达尔小姐显得心事重重。
• Yet the stimulation the event has left behind still ferments in the pensive minds and aspiring hearts of thousands.
  诚然，这一重大事件过后所留下的震动（激励？）依然在成千上万的沉思的头脑和有抱负的心灵当中发酵、酝酿。
• "For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood,"
  每当我躺在床上不眠，或心神空茫，或默默沉思
• Seeing the depth of her despair, he grew pensive
  看到她陷入无限的绝望，他沉入深深的忧思中
• But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.
  但是，她固然失往了憨稚无知的神态，却赢回了端庄凝重的魅力。
• I'll take that as a pensive "no."
  我会把你的沉思当作“是的”