contemplate
/ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/ verbe C1En français : envisager, étudier, contempler
- To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
- To consider as a possibility. · I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.
He/she/it contemplates · Prétérit contemplated · Participe passé contemplated · Forme en -ing contemplating
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Dans la bibliothèque
While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the pool and crouched to spring upon him.
He had contemplated danger with a smile, and when wounded had exclaimed with the great philosopher, “Pain, thou art not an evil.”
A man was seated with his elbow leaning on the column, and was reading with his back turned to the arcades, through the openings of which the new-comers contemplated him.
Albert had himself presided at the arrangement, or, rather, the symmetrical derangement, which, after coffee, the guests at a breakfast of modern days love to contemplate through the vapor that escapes from their mouths, and ascends in long and fanciful wreaths to the ceiling.
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