pensive

adj.

1. 沉思的；忧伤的；忧戚的
   thinking deeply about sth, especially because you are sad or worried
   1. a pensive mood
      沉重的心情
   2. to look pensive
      神情忧伤

1. ADJ-GRADED 沉思的；忧思的
   If you are pensive, you are thinking deeply about something, especially something that worries you slightly.
   1. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
      他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。

1. He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
   他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。
2. You may remember the way each scene ended with someone looking pensive or significant.
   你或许还记得，每一场的结尾要么是某人作沉思状，要么是某人故作深沉。
3. He became so pensive that she didn't like to break into his thoughts.
   他陷入沉思之中，她不想打断他的思路。
4. Why you are still singing a pensive lay there for youth?
   为什么你还在那里吟唱青春的哀歌？
5. Mrs Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.
   丁太太举起蜡烛，我分辨出一张温和的脸，极像山庄上那位年轻夫人，但是在表情上更显得沉思而且和蔼。
6. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
   每当我躺在床上不眠，或心神空茫，或默默沉思，它们常在心灵中闪现，那是孤独之中的福祉；于是我的心便涨满幸福，和水仙一同翩翩起舞。
7. While pensive poets painful vigils keep ( Alexander Pope).
   当冥想的诗人守夜忧思时（亚历山大柏蒲）。
8. What are you so pensive about?
   你这么专心，在想些什么？
9. When he was gone, Amy, who had been pensive all evening, said suddenly, as if busy over some new idea," Is Laurie an accomplished boy?"
   待劳瑞回家了，沉思了整整一晚上的安米突然开口了，似乎脑子里有了新想法，“劳瑞是个有才华的男生吗？”
10. Suddenly it struck me that several of my close friends kept, somewhere in their houses, an image of me dissolving in laughter. I've always preferred a rather wistful, pensive image of myself.
    突然，我醒悟到几个自己的亲密朋友，在她们的家中的某个地方，都有一幅我融于大笑中的画面。
11. Edward, noticing she was pensive, a state which he detested, asked what were her thoughts.
    爱德华见她神气凄凉，精神处于一种为他所憎恶的状态，便问她想些什么。
12. When he had ended the perusal, he folded the letter and resumed his pensive attitude.
    读完信以后，他把信叠好，恢复了他那若有所思的神情。
13. "For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood,"
    每当我躺在床上不眠，或心神空茫，或默默沉思
14. A pensive Egyptian sits in front of the Luxor Temple.
    一个沉思的埃及人坐在埃及祖马寺庙的前面。
15. A pensive lyrical piece of music ( especially for the piano).
    一种沉思的抒情的音乐（尤指钢琴曲）。
16. He had observed that miss keelder looked pensive.
    他注意到茎达尔小姐显得心事重重。
17. She was pensive about her losing work.
    她在为失去工作而忧愁。
18. Her face soon began a pensive smile.
    她脸上一会儿就显出一种沉静庄重的微笑。
19. The countless tiny flakes glittered in the quiet, pensive light of the street lamps.
    寂静的夜幕中，无数的小鳞片闪闪发光，给街灯笼罩上忧郁的神韵。
20. One day he was surprised to observe that he had of late insensibly fallen into the habit of thinking a good deal in a pensive sort of way about Ida and those German days.
    有一天，他很惊讶地注意到自己不知不觉养成一种怀念的习惯，那就是在忧思中怀念起许多关于艾达和那些在德国日子的事。
21. She had a gentle voice and pensive expression.
    她有柔和的声音和深思的表情。
22. Yet the stimulation the event has left behind still ferments in the pensive minds and aspiring hearts of thousands.
    诚然，这一重大事件过后所留下的震动（激励？）依然在成千上万的沉思的头脑和有抱负的心灵当中发酵、酝酿。
23. She became withdrawn and pensive, hardly speaking to anyone.
    她变得孤僻忧虑，几乎不和任何人说话。
24. The woman in this painting has a pensive smile.
    画中的女人笑容很哀怨。
25. The painting can inspire a pensive mood.
    这幅画能引人沉思。
26. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.
    但是，她固然失往了憨稚无知的神态，却赢回了端庄凝重的魅力。
27. Seeing the depth of her despair, he grew pensive
    看到她陷入无限的绝望，他沉入深深的忧思中
28. I'll take that as a pensive "no."
    我会把你的沉思当作“是的”
29. These were among the echoes to which lucie, sometimes pensive, sometimes amused and laughing, listened in the echoing corner, until her little daughter was six years old.
    这些东西都是露西在她那回音角里时而沉思、时而忍不住微笑时听见的，一直听到她的女儿长到了六岁。
30. Am I not allowed to have a pensive side?
    我不能有忧郁的一面吗？

adj

1. showing pensive sadness
   1. the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty

   Synonym:    wistful

2. 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:    broodingbroodycontemplativemeditativemusingponderingreflectiveruminative