pensive
英 [ˈpensɪv]
美 [ˈpensɪv]
adj. 沉思的; 忧伤的; 忧戚的
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- a pensive mood
沉重的心情 - to look pensive
神情忧伤
- a pensive mood
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.- He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
他突然看起来很阴郁,一副忧虑的样子。
- He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
英英释义
adj
- showing pensive sadness
- the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
- deeply or seriously thoughtful
- 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
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。 - 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。 - I'll take that as a pensive "no."
我会把你的沉思当作“是的” - 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。 - She had a gentle voice and pensive expression.
她有柔和的声音和深思的表情。 - The painting can inspire a pensive mood.
这幅画能引人沉思。