pensive

英 [ˈpensɪv]

美 [ˈpensɪv]

adj.  沉思的; 忧伤的; 忧戚的

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BNC.22406 / COCA.18665

牛津词典

adj.

• 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

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 沉思的；忧思的
  If you arepensive, 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。

英英释义

adj

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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
  他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。
• 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？
• 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？”
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。