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

• 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。
• It is worthwhile to ruminate over his remarks.
  他的话值得玩味。
• Don't ruminate on past affronts or injustices.
  莫要沉湎于过去所受的侮辱或者不公平。
• 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。
• The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
  牛吃完草后开始反刍。
• Straw was the main by-product of crops and it was the important feed resource of the ruminate animal.
  秸秆是农作物的主要副产品，又是牛、羊等反刍动物的重要饲料资源。
• 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。
• Donahoe then begins to ruminate on his eight years at eBay ( eBay), five of them as CEO.
  随后，多纳霍开始回顾自己在eBay度过的八年职业生涯，其中五年他都担任首席执行官一职。
• 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。