0 to spend time considering a possible future action, or to consider one particular thing for a long time in a serious and quiet way -- 盘算；沉思，冥想
But as we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue.
In the absence of clear experimental constraints, we did not contemplate such additional mechanisms for this model.
The length seemed to reflect both the men's verbal ability and emotional overload when contemplating the future.
This, they argue, is a position which 'constructivism cannot contemplate'.
But, for some, the future was not something to contemplate, they had either ceased to live for themselves or were waiting to die.
The operas, moreover, are self-reflexive: they contemplate themselves.
Moreover, relevant federal law specifically contemplates his office taking actions based on zoonotic outbreaks.
Ambitious social scientists generally think of physics when they contemplate the possibilities of quantification.
