眼睛停在那裡
這一族就是核心畫面本身：實際用眼睛長時間看著一個人或一樣東西。
contemplate (gaze at) · verb · C2
To look at a person or thing for some time, in a way that shows you are thinking.
凝視
核心畫面
One way to picture it: standing still and holding something in your gaze for a long moment — not at it, but letting your eyes rest on it while your mind works. The eye holding an object becomes the mind holding an idea.
你停下來，把視線長長地停在一樣東西上：不是掃一眼就走，而是讓眼睛停在那裡，同時腦子在轉。contemplate 的整…更多收起
你停下來，把視線長長地停在一樣東西上：不是掃一眼就走，而是讓眼睛停在那裡，同時腦子在轉。contemplate 的整個家族都從這個「凝視」長出來——先是眼睛停在一個東西上，然後是心裡停在一個念頭上。所以它跟 think about 的差別就在這個「停」：contemplate 帶著時間感和專注，是慢的、安靜的，不是急著想出答案。From the word’s history
Latin contemplor came from templum, the space marked out in the sky by an augur for watching for omens — literally to gaze steadily within a marked-off space. That framed, unhurried looking is still the shape of the modern word.
拉丁文 contemplor 來自 templum——古羅馬占卜師在天上劃出的一塊觀測區域，他就盯著那一塊看，等徵兆出現。字面就是「在劃定的範圍內持續凝視」。這個「圈出一塊、慢慢看」的畫面到今天還在：contemplate 一件事，就是把它單獨圈出來，安靜地看久一點。（順帶一提，template 跟它同源。）
Wiktionary: contemplate (from Latin contemplor, related to templum)
Two branches
心裡停在一個念頭上
眼睛怎麼對著東西，心就怎麼對著念頭——把外在的凝視整個搬進腦袋裡。
contemplate (reflect) · verb · C2
To spend time thinking about a matter in a serious, quiet way.
沉思
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。
contemplateverb/ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/
- 1
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 love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
- We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
- 2
To consider as a possibility.
- I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.
- There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
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。