chew over

1. PHRASAL VERB 反复思考;不断考虑
   If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
   1. He tends to chew things over too much in his mind...
      他这个人就爱在心里反复琢磨事儿。
   2. Goldstone chewed over the idea further.
      戈德斯通进一步考虑了这个问题。

1. He tends to chew things over too much in his mind
   他这个人就爱在心里反复琢磨事儿。
2. Goldstone chewed over the idea further.
   戈德斯通进一步考虑了这个问题。
3. We used to meet at weekend and chew the fat over coffee and sunflower seeds.
   我们经常在周末一起聊天，一边喝着咖啡，一边吃瓜子。
4. It's an interesting suggestion, but we need a bit longer to chew it over.
   这是个很好的建议，但我们仍需要更多一点时间对它加以考虑。
5. In Munich, they chew over the contrasts between the two continents: risk-taking versus safety nets, the free market versus regulations, start-ups versus incumbents.
   在慕尼黑，他们详细讨论了欧美两大洲之间的差异，话题包括风险承担与安全网络、自由市场与监管条规、初创公司与现有企业等。
6. Banality weakens our intellectual, spiritual and ethical muscles, rendering us flabby thinkers, unable or unwilling to chew over the difficult matter of experience and make it part of us.
   平庸削弱我们的智力、精神乃至伦理力量，把我们塑造成有气无力的思考者，没有能力或不愿意咀嚼经验中艰涩的事物，并使之成为我们的一部分。
7. News that Australia's competition authority wants more time to chew over Rio's iron ore production joint venture with BHP Billiton is ominous.
   澳大利亚竞争监管机构希望用更多时间审查力拓与必和必拓（BHPBilliton）成立铁矿石合资生产企业的计划，这是个不祥之兆。
8. I'll give you till tomorrow to chew it over.
   我给你一天时间考虑考虑这问题。
9. Why don't we do lunch sometime and chew this over?
   我们为何不找个时间边用午餐，边仔细讨论一下这个问题？
10. Officials meet regularly to chew over the future of the company.
    官员们定期见在商讨公司的未来。
11. Let's chew over the idea before making any decisions.
    在下结论前，让我们再讨论一次。
12. I'll chew it over for a few days and let you know my opinion.
    这件事我要仔细考虑几天，然后告诉你我的看法。
13. Each blogger is capable of bias and slander, but, taken as a group, bloggers offer the searcher after truth boundless material to chew over.
    每个博客都有可能抱有偏见和说些诽谤性的话，但是作为整体，博客们为寻找真相的人们提供了大量值得仔细琢磨的材料。
14. During the seemingly repeated days, it is wise for us to accumulate our experience of life little by little, chew over it and develop it to a higher level.
    在貌似重复的岁月里，我们有必要让内心的生命体验一点点凝聚、回味和升华。
15. Give us a few days to chew it over.
    给我们一些日子考虑考虑。
16. Developing countries chew up over half of the world's energy and hold most of its foreign-exchange reserves.
    发展中国家一方面咀嚼着世界能源的多数，另一方面把持着外汇储备的大半。
17. I'll chew the problem over for a few days.
    这个问题我会仔细思考几天。
18. Then, after a semester, we analyze the result and chew over again and again.
    最后，通过一个学期的实践，观察结果，对该结果进行分析并深深反思。

verb

1. reflect deeply on a subject
   1. I mulled over the events of the afternoon
   2. philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
   3. The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

   Synonym:    think overmeditateponderexcogitatecontemplatemusereflectmullmull overruminatespeculate