1.Contemplate marriage; forced by the accident to contemplate retirement.
打算结婚；因意外因素而被迫打算撤退
2.Yesterday was our first anniversary. And, like all birthdays, it was a time of some reflection - to contemplate the challenges that lie ahead, and how to achieve a brighter future for our community.
昨天是香港特区成立一周年的日子，也正如所有诞辰一样，这天也是回顾反思的时候，让我们思考一下迎面而来的挑战，再想想怎样为香港社会建设更璀璨的明天。
3.I sit and wait. Does an angel contemplate my fate?
我坐下,等待.可有一个天使在冥想我的命运?
4.Americans are staunch nationalists, much readier to contemplate the use of force than Europeans.
美国人则是坚定的民族主义者，在打算使用武力方面比欧洲人准备更加充分。
5.It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth; and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
凝视缤纷的河岸乃有趣之事，葱郁的各种植物枝繁叶茂，群鸟在灌木丛中鸣唱，各类昆虫飞来飞去，软体虫在湿地间爬过；进而反思，这些结构精巧的物种，彼此间这样相异，且又以如此复杂的方式相互依存，而它们又都是由在我们周围发生作用的法则所产生。
6.Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate large-scale immigration.
据日本政府估计，随着老龄人口的迅速增加，到2030年，日本的劳动力将减少16%。对于一个不习惯也不愿意大规模引入外来劳动力的国家来说，这种状况让人担忧谁能来填补这个劳动力空缺。
7.To contemplate the nearness of the research interview to everyday conversations may also have been threatening to the scientific legitimacy of the "young" social science.
预想具有接近（生活）性的日常对话式调查采访可能已经威胁到关于“年轻一代”社会科学的科学合理性。
8.In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin made a specific appeal to this idea when he wrote his famous description of the complex ecology of a bank covered by dense vegetation: "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us".
这句话最广泛的中译法是(按周建人/叶笃庄/方宗熙译本)：“凝视树木交错的河岸，许多种类的无数植物覆盖其上，群鸟鸣于灌木丛中，各种昆虫飞来飞去，蚯蚓在湿土里爬过，并且默想一下，这些构造精巧的类型，彼此这样相异，并以这样复杂的方式相互依存，而它们都是由于在我们周围发生作用的法则产生出来的，这岂非有趣之事。”
9.HOW dare those materialistic French fret about unemployment and other bread-and-butter questions as they contemplate the lofty issues posed by the forthcoming referendum?
那些持唯物论的法国人考虑即将到来的公民投票引起的“崇高问题”时，怎么竟敢对失业和其他生计（面包黄油）问题忧心忡忡？
10.Give yourself the gift of quietness to contemplate, calm down, and center yourself.
让自己有时间安静下来，镇定下来，把注意力集中在自己身上。
