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

• 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
• I'll take that as a pensive "no."
  我会把你的沉思当作“是的”
• He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
  他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。
• 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。
• She had a gentle voice and pensive expression.
  她有柔和的声音和深思的表情。
• 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。
• Her face soon began a pensive smile.
  她脸上一会儿就显出一种沉静庄重的微笑。
• Am I not allowed to have a pensive side?
  我不能有忧郁的一面吗？
• These were among the echoes to which lucie, sometimes pensive, sometimes amused and laughing, listened in the echoing corner, until her little daughter was six years old.
  这些东西都是露西在她那回音角里时而沉思、时而忍不住微笑时听见的，一直听到她的女儿长到了六岁。