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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    沈思的;憂鬱的

                      be in a pensive mood

          2.    憂心忡忡

          3.    悲傷的;哀愁的





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1. dreamily or wistfully thoughtful: a pensive [mood]. 

2. expressing or revealing thoughtfulness, usually marked by some sadness: a pensive [adagio]. (慢板樂章)  



—Synonyms 

1. Pensive, meditative, reflective suggest quiet modes of apparent or real thought. 



Pensive, the weakest of the three, suggests dreaminess or wistfulness, and may involve little or no thought to any purpose: a pensive, faraway [look]. 



Meditative involves thinking of certain facts or phenomena, perhaps in the religious sense of "contemplation," without necessarily having a goal of complete understanding or of action: meditative [but] unjudicial. 



Reflective has a strong implication of orderly, perhaps analytic, processes of thought, usually with a definite goal of understanding: a careful and reflective [critic].



—Antonyms 

1. thoughtless.





　Guided through the journey by a pensive, [fragmented] exterminator, Medem fuses psychological instability with emotional conflict, and deftly creates the incomprehensively complex puzzle of human relationships.





see rumination