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

• The cloudy day of July is long today, and I have been musing over all those games in life wherein I was loser.
  今天，七月的阴天是漫长的，我在默忆我生命中以我为失败者的一切游戏。
• 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。
• And musing there an hour alone.
  我独自在那里冥想一刻钟。
• 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。
• He was musing upon the rushing torrents of the river.
  他在凝望着激流奔腾的河水。
• She sat, looking into the cloudy mirror, musing.
  她凝视着朦胧的镜子，坐着陷入了沉思。
• The solitary child lived on, surrounded by this arabesque work of his musing fancy, and no one understood him.
  这孤独的孩子就这样继续生活着；他沉思的想象所构造出的奇异的形象围绕着他；没有人了解他。
• 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。
• Thus little Paul sat musing, listening, looking on, and dreaming; and was very happy.
  小保罗就这样坐在那里沉思着，听着。看着，做着梦，感到很快乐。