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To cogitate is to think something over slowly and with care, turning it in your mind. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned verb. In speech, people usually say “think hard,” “think it over,” or “sit and think.” You will see cogitate in books, and sometimes in writing that wants a big, serious tone: a detective cogitates. A student staring at a hard problem is, in ordinary English, just thinking. Though actually, it does not mean “know” or “understand” — that is a different family (). Cogitate is the act of working on a thought, not the knowing you end up with. It is also not the same as “worry”: you can cogitate calmly.
深思、沉思、仔細思索
組成First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin cōgitātus, the “having thought” form of cōgitō (“to think”), plus the English verb ending -ate. Latin cōgitō is a frequentative from con- (together) + agitō (to keep driving or moving something): to keep turning a thought.
同家族的字
- cogitationthe noun: the careful thinking itself
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cogitateverb/ˈkəʊdʒɪteɪt/
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To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
- He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
- Think, ladies! Cogitate! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.
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To consider, to devise.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。