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。
• Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller;
  而在门框，门楣，门槛都消失了一世代之后，生机勃勃的丁香花还是生长着，每年春天展开它的芳香的花朵，给沉思的旅行者去摘；
• 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。
• 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。
• All that winter Eugene kept to his gloomy room, reading and musing.
  整个冬天，叶甫盖尼守在他那阴暗的房间里读书和沉思。
• 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。
• While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola.
  正当我在思索这些事情时，我的注意力被圆顶下一个井一样美丽的建筑吸引住了。
• 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。
• He sat musing on my remark.
  他坐在那儿，对我的话左思右想。
• She sat musing over the memories of the past.
  她坐着缅怀往事。