contemplate

• It was a tall order to ask him to be a partner in launching a new initiative of undefined duration when he was contemplating his own demise .
  当死神在向他招手的时候，要他合作发起一项旷日持久的新倡议，未免太苛刻了。
• Eventually, if the situation does not correct itself, the manager may contemplate more serious sanctionssuch as a transfer or dismissal .
  最后，如果情况不能自行纠正，经理可能诉诸于更严厉的制裁方式如调换工作或解雇。
• She could not understand why her mother should find such satisfaction in contemplating an enterprise of, to her, such doubtful profit .
  她始终不明白，为什么她自己觉得是一件完全凭撞运气，好坏毫无把握的事儿，她母亲一提起来，却会那样高兴满意。
• The light looks in at the windows, and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters .
  阳光照进了窗户，一道道明亮的光线一个个明亮的光片，抚弄着先人们的肖像，这是画家们当初根本意想不到的。
• The risk of endangering a child's strong affection by disturbing ideas which had grown with her growth was to mrs. henchard too fearful a thing to contemplate .
  一个孩子本有许多烦扰的观念，这是随着岁月在增长的，而冒险用这来破坏她的坚强的爱情，真是亨察尔太太连想也不敢想的事。
• The prospect of the two industral empires of japan and germany drawing freely upon the vast resources of rubber, oil, and the other riches of the netherlands and india was too black a picture to contemplate .
  德日两个工业国家，如一旦攫得荷印广泛而丰富的橡胶、石油、及其他资源，对于我们实在是一个威胁。
• It must have been a grand but melancholy sight to see pen in the recesses of his apartment, sadly contemplating his ravaged beauty and the artificial means of hiding its ruin .
  看到小潘躲在房间深处，怎样对着镜子，顾影自怜，用人工方法掩盖那一片废墟，你一定会觉得那是一场既精彩又伤心的表演。
• The first option is too gruesome to contemplate
  第一种选择太可怕，难以去想象。
• She stood contemplating her figure in the mirror
  她站在镜子前凝视自己的影子。