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

• 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。
• The veteran worker's words set his mind musing.
  老工人的话使他沉思起来。
• 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。
• 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。
• He drew back his chair, clasped his hands over his head, and gave himself up to dull and arid musing.
  他把椅子往后退了一下，扭住双手放在头上，陷入了呆滞乏味的沉思。
• Mr Watkins gets lost rambling among minor details, and prefers musing over questions to answering them.
  沃特金斯对细节的处理杂乱无章，思考问题重于回答问题。
• 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 sat musing on my remark.
  他坐在那儿，对我的话左思右想。
• And musing there an hour alone.
  我独自在那里冥想一刻钟。
• 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。