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

• At first, Martin had done nothing but rest. He had slept a great deal, and spent long hours musing and thinking and doing nothing.
  起初马丁除了休息什么事都不做，睡了很多觉，花了很多时间沉思默想。
• He was musing upon the rushing torrents of the river.
  他在凝望着激流奔腾的河水。
• The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy.
  大自然甩脱睡眠和开始活动的奇景展示在这惊奇的孩子面前了。
• I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward.
  我在秋日里沉思迟迟，望断南凝汽。
• He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action.
  原来方才他坐在这里无助地沉思，手却始终没有停笔，如同在自动地工作。
• But, you man of riches, your wealth has no part in the simple grandeur of the sun's glad gold and the mellow gleam of the musing moon.
  但是，你这富有的人，你的财富，在太阳的喜悦的金光和沉思的月亮的柔光这种单纯的光彩里，却占不了一份。
• She sat, looking into the cloudy mirror, musing.
  她凝视着朦胧的镜子，坐着陷入了沉思。
• 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。
• 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。
• When he entered there, however, he found his wife brushing her hair and musing to herself the while.
  但是当他走进去时，他发现他妻子正在用刷子梳理头发，一边刷，一边在沉思。