Contemplate

Definition

contemplate /'kɒntǝmpleÇt/ v ၁။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္စဥ္းစားသည္။ ခ်ိန္ဆ သည္။ The consequences of a nuclear war are too awful to contemplate. ❍ She is contemplating a visit to (ie may visit) America. ❍ I'm not contemplating retiring (ie I do not intend to retire) yet. ❍ No one would contemplate such a thing happening. ၂။ (က) စိတ္ေအး လက္ေအးၾကည့္ သည္၊ စဥ္းစားသည္။ စိတ္ကူးမွန္းဆၾကည့္သည္။ She stood contemplating the painting. ❍ He contemplated what the future would be like without the children. (ခ) (တရားသေဘာ) အာ႐ံုျပဳသည္၊ ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ a few quiet minutes in the middle of the day to sit and contemplate ❍ contemplating the death of Our Lord. ❏ contemplation /kɒntǝm'pleÇʃn/ n [U] ၁။ ေလးေလး နက္နက္ ဆင္ျခင္ၾကည့္႐ႈျခင္း။ He stood in silent contemplation of the scene before him. ၂။ (တရားသေဘာ) အာ႐ံုျပဳျခင္း၊ ဆင္ျခင္ျခင္း။ a life of prayer and contemplation ❍ He sat there deep in contemplation. ၃။ ( fml ) ဆင္ျခင္သံုးသပ္ျခင္း။ New and desperate measures to deal with the crisis are in contemplation. ❏ contemplative /kǝn'templǝtÇv, 'kɒntǝmpleÇ- tÇv/ adj ၁။ ဆင္ျခင္စဥ္းစားေလ့ရိွေသာ။ a contemplative person/manner/look. ၂။ တရားအားထုတ္ေနေသာ။ a contemplative order of nuns.

Examples

1. I’m contemplating retirement next year.
2. [contemplate doing something] : He refuses even to contemplate moving house again.
3. We’re not even contemplating defeat.
4. [too awful/dreadful etc to contemplate] : The alternative is too horrible to contemplate.
5. I haven’t got time to sit around contemplating the meaning of life.
6. He stood contemplating his image in the mirror.