musing

noun

1. 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。

1. VERB 沉思;冥想;若有所思地说(或写)
   If you muse on 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。
2. N-COUNT (给画家、诗人或音乐家带来灵感的)女神，创作女神
   A muse is 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

1. He was musing upon the rushing torrents of the river.
   他在凝望着激流奔腾的河水。
2. At first, Martin had done nothing but rest. He had slept a great deal, and spent long hours musing and thinking and doing nothing.
   起初马丁除了休息什么事都不做，睡了很多觉，花了很多时间沉思默想。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. And musing there an hour alone.
    我独自在那里冥想一刻钟。
11. When he entered there, however, he found his wife brushing her hair and musing to herself the while.
    但是当他走进去时，他发现他妻子正在用刷子梳理头发，一边刷，一边在沉思。
12. Several years ago Sir John Pendry, a physicist at Imperial College, London, who was musing on this idea, realised that such a material would make a perfect lens.
    几年前，伦敦皇家大学的约翰？彭德瑞爵士（SirJohnPendry）对这个想法进行了深思，他意识到这样的材料将有助于制造出理想的透镜。
13. I couldnot help musing about my future. I couldnot stay the same as before! If so, I would be nothing.
    我禁不住想到自己的未来，我不能再像以前那样，如果那样，我将一事无成！
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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；
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. She sat musing over the memories of the past.
    她坐着缅怀往事。
20. She sat, looking into the cloudy mirror, musing.
    她凝视着朦胧的镜子，坐着陷入了沉思。
21. The veteran worker's words set his mind musing.
    老工人的话使他沉思起来。
22. He sat musing on my remark.
    他坐在那儿，对我的话左思右想。
23. The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the library; now musing mournfully one of us despairingly on our loss, now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future.
    丧事办完后的那天晚上，我的小姐和我坐在书房里；一会儿哀伤地思索着我们的损失&我们中间有一个是绝望地思索着，一会儿又对那黯淡的未来加以推测。
24. He slouched off across Broadway, and Archer stood looking after him and musing on his last words.
    他没精打采地穿过百老汇大街走了，阿切尔站在那儿望着他的背影，品味着他最后的几句话。
25. SITTING in a booth in a classic Manhattan diner, Dan Doctoroff, clad in jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, is sipping a diet soda and musing about the city he loves.
    那是一家典型的曼哈顿餐馆，DanDoctoroff身着牛仔裤和短袖衬衫，一边啜着无糖苏打一边赞美着这座他深爱的城市。
26. 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。
27. 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。
28. I musing late in the autumn day, gazing off southward.
    我在秋日里沉思迟迟，望断南凝汽。
29. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action.
    原来方才他坐在这里无助地沉思，手却始终没有停笔，如同在自动地工作。
30. 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。

noun

1. a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

   Synonym:    contemplationreflectionreflexionruminationthoughtfulness

adj

1. 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