ruminate
柯林斯詞典
1. V-I If you ruminate on something, you think about it very carefully. 認(rèn)真思考[正式]
He ruminated on the terrible wastefulness that typified American life. 他認(rèn)真思考了美國生活中典型且非常嚴(yán)重的浪費(fèi)問題。
2. V-I When animals ruminate, they bring food back from their stomach into their mouth and chew it again. (動物)反芻[技術(shù)]
返回 ruminate
ruminate /?ru?m??ne?t/ (ruminating,ruminated,ruminates)
劍橋詞典
ruminate verb [I] (THINK)
formalto think carefully and for a long period about something
沉思，長時間思考
She ruminated for weeks about whether to tell him or not. 幾個星期她一直在反復(fù)考慮是否要告訴他真相。
ruminate verb [I] (EAT)
biology specialized(of particular types of animal ) to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again
（動物）反芻，倒嚼 返回 ruminate