| 词组 | meditate |
| 释义 | meditate When meditate is used with a preposition, the choice is usually on: • ... our only condition is that he turn them into poetry, and not merely meditate on them poetically —T. S. Eliot, "The Metaphysical Poets," in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... meditated with concentrated attention on the problem of flight —Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923 • ... meditate on the fact that they were commanded by a man who meant business —C. S. Forester, The Barbary Pirates, 1953 Less frequently it is used with upon: • While they went out of doors together, she meditated upon the fact of his usefulness —Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, 1925 • ... the young priest blotted himself out of his own consciousness and meditated upon the anguish of his Lord —Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 |
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