1The action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time.

路上的交通太繁忙了，无暇欣赏景色。

1. 1.1 Deep reflective thought.
   沉思；深思
   he would retire to his room for study or contemplation

   他要回房学习或思考去了。

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   • To understand strategy requires deep contemplation and endless study.
   • One devours a rabbit-like animal as another sits in deep contemplation.
   • The scans were compared with similar measurements taken during the monks' normal waking state, producing an insight into the neurological effects of the process of deep contemplation.
   • The low protective wall, the height of a seated figure, allows protection for people to sit in reflective contemplation.
   • The door was silent for a moment, as if in deep contemplation.
   • There he took shelter in the shade of a welcoming pipal tree and began a long period of deep contemplation.
   • Arthur does not slip easily into introspection, he is too sprightly a personality for deep contemplation.
   • But the discovery immediately sent me into deep moral contemplation.
   • Dmitri frowned, musing over some deep contemplation.
   • I bear the fruit of two years' deep contemplation!
   • Before he could get very far, he saw a familiar young woman staring out one of the windows, most likely in deep contemplation.
   • Glancing back to him, I noticed he looked as if he was in deep contemplation.
   • Granted, a film doesn't always need to make a person think or cause deep contemplation, but is good dialogue too much to ask?
   • A few people are seated here in deep contemplation, probably on what next to do in life.
   • So today, I am in a place of contemplation and reflection about how to remedy the mouse situation.
   • She appears to be in deep, concerned contemplation.
   • But even for a few of those lucky superstars, it just comes naturally, without any deep contemplation.
   • Airen had been lost in deep concentration and contemplation when she felt something nudge her shoulder.
   • But I know that moving in a universe operating on Balkan time, no question should be answered too hastily, and without deep contemplation.
   • He always sat like that when he was in deep contemplation.

   Synonyms

   thought, meditation, consideration, pondering, reflection, thinking, musing, rumination, deliberation, cogitation, reverie, concentration, introspection

   informal brown study

   formal cerebration
2. 1.2 The state of being considered or planned.
   打算，意图；预期
   substantial fitting work is in contemplation

   计划进行大规模装修。

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   • An oblong of pebbles and short posts anchored by a gnarled, leafless tree creates the isolated beach where Braidie retreats in contemplation.
   • No evidence is before the court that any new appliance is under design or construction - or even in contemplation, within the jurisdiction.
   • In other words, it was in contemplation that the dividend would be declared and paid because the purchaser had undertaken the agreement to fund it.
   • Whether a service is performed or engaged in contemplation of adversarial proceedings in court is essentially a matter of judgment.
   • At the time this prospectus was issued, was it still in contemplation that working capital would come from loan finance provided by outside bankers?
   • After, shaking her head back and forth in contemplation she reached out and broke one in half and then as if sneaking a CIA document looked around before eating it.
   • The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning if he stayed out of trouble for six months, the charges would disappear and the file be sealed.
   • The mind bends in contemplation of her ceaseless ability to reapply herself.
   • My recollection is that one of the most controversial issues at the time this legislation was in contemplation was the position of trustee companies of superannuation funds.
   • Juska is momentarily self-conscious as she realises that neighbouring diners have put down their forks in contemplation of her possible murder.
   • These are matters which we've already had in contemplation.
   • Hitherto such communications have only been protected when they have been in contemplation of some litigation, or for the purpose of giving advice or obtaining evidence with reference to it.
   • Should routine laboratory reports made in contemplation of prosecution be inadmissible if the technician does not testify?
   • Why should not the defendant ought to foresee that they were persons who could be affected by his act and have them in contemplation when it backed the forklift over the deceased?
   • Under that statute, judges have discretion to order return of any gift made in contemplation of marriage, in the event the marriage never takes place.
   • So a time is reached in the selling of the Village, assuming no further development is in contemplation, when the entrepreneur has no continuing interest in it?
   • The question was whether the privilege was confined to cases where legal proceedings were already in contemplation.
   • Rolf blanched and then sat in contemplation over the subject.
   • So one has to then find out what the connection was in contemplation of the Parliament, as it were, to use inaccurate language again, I suppose.
   • The result would be no different than if a third party, not otherwise engaged in contemplation of legal proceedings, had undertaken such additional activities.
3. 1.3 Religious meditation.
   （宗教上的）冥思，冥想；默念，默想
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   • After hearing the dharma and becoming familiar with it through contemplation and meditation, we are able to take compassion as the basis of our daily activity.
   • Religions adopted it as a symbol for contemplation and meditation.
   • Today we hear a lot about the yearning for spiritual simplicity and silent contemplation.
   • It was not for the few who, because of their personal aptitude, should feel drawn to a life of a so-called spiritual meditation and contemplation.
   • Did they even make a clear distinction between meditation and contemplation?
   • And I'm actually standing near the universal temple, where anyone is welcome to come for meditation or silent contemplation.
   • But by ascetic restraint and by introspective contemplation, the soul can ascend to its true fulfilment.
   • It takes on an ambience of solemnity, filled with memory, contemplation, and meditation.
   • We need to approach each teaching with three different attitudes: first by listening, or hearing, second by contemplation, third by meditation.
   • Religious contemplation through the medium of song and dance.
   • That started to look a lot like traditional forms of meditation or contemplation.
   • Theology is the mystical contemplation of God by the creatively receptive consciousness of the mind and heart.
   • I usually follow it with meditation and contemplation.
   • No one can doubt that much that is decent in the human experience is owed to the restraint of contemplation within a received religious framework.
   • However, my own encounters were always frameworked in regular meditation and contemplation, music and art… so you need to tend to your inner energies like a garden.
   • I was reaping the benefits of all of the good foundation work of concentration, meditation and contemplation that had been given to me at an early age.
   • Hours of quiet meditation and contemplation upon the fundamental meaning of existence and relationship to the world around them would seem to have been the pattern of their lives.
   • By simple definition, meditation is engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual or devotional nature.
   • Practicing meditation and contemplation is how we purify our mind, just as we polish a crystal ball, so that we can actually see the full display of radiance.
   • Far from being a Spartan retreat of the kind normally associated with religious contemplation, ministers who did visit lived a life of luxury.
4. 1.4 A form of Christian prayer or meditation in which a person seeks to pass beyond mental images and concepts to a direct experience of the divine.
   （基督教灵性的）敛心默祷；出神（尽力超越心中的形象与概念，直接与神相通）
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   • And now that they may be expelled and annihilated they are brought to light and seen clearly through the illumination of this dark light of divine contemplation.
   • For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness.
   • The inner meaning of the story is that we all have to escape our own tigers, negative emotions like greed, jealousy and anger, by contemplation, meditation and prayer.
   • His views are echoed by others in the town who stress the importance of allowing access for prayer and contemplation - particularly in troubled times.
   • He and the Church are entering a period of reflection, contemplation, and prayer.
   • Christian contemplation, as he later undertakes in a work such as The Trinity, is spiritual discipline applied to the doctrines of the church.
   • This leads us into mysticism as the spiritual quality of staying in pure contemplation in the divine presence.
   • This can mean taking five to 10 minutes each morning or evening for quiet contemplation and prayer.
   • Inside, the aisles were packed with at least six or seven tour groups of varying nationality making such a hubbub that any contemplation or prayer would have been impossible.
   • The life of contemplation seeks openness to and acceptance of reality as God's.
   • For five years, he lived a life of meditation, of deep communion with nature during excursions into the mountains, of contemplation, and of prayer.
   • He balances imaginative contemplation of Christ's Passion with calls to ascetic efforts, regarding each as balancing and correcting the dangers of the other.
   • If you feel Christmas should be a time of quiet prayer and contemplation, then a retreat could be just what you're looking for, and by the time you return all the fuss will be over for another year.
   • Though shattered and disillusioned, he held onto his dream of getting away from ordinary life in order to pursue prayer and contemplation.
   • Returning to our contemplation of Christ, let us look next at two three-fold cords in the Scriptures that attest the sinlessness of Christ.
   • But a very different view found its expression in early monasticism, where wealth and its temptations were seen as a constant threat to Christian contemplation.
   • It is the Word of God set to music - its constant gentle repetitive quality allows deep contemplation and prayer on the sentiments that it expresses.
   • The rosary is one of the traditional paths of Christian prayer directed to the contemplation of Christ's face.
   • In 1836, after several weeks of prayer and contemplation, he was converted and baptized into the membership of a Baptist church.
   • More than prayer, contemplation constitutes a way of life or a fundamental orientation.