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
- 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。 - 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。 - The painting can inspire a pensive mood.
这幅画能引人沉思。 - 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。 - 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。 - The woman in this painting has a pensive smile.
画中的女人笑容很哀怨。 - 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 - He looked suddenly sombre, pensive.
他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。 - 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。