性格外向的人喜歡高談闊論，而不愿思索人生的意義。 Extroverts prefer lively conversation to brooding on the meaning of life.
自由思想家（尤指在宗教思想方面）拒絕了權(quán)威和教條主義，贊同理性的探究和思索的人 One who has rejected authority and dogma, especially in religious thinking, in favor of rational inquiry and speculation.
優(yōu)秀的學(xué)者“主動留心于”新信息，他們對讀到的東西進行思索，以挑戰(zhàn)的精神對待它，融會貫通，使之成為自己的東西。 Good learners become "actively involved" with new information.They think about what they read, challenge it, make it their own.
在我回答他們之前，我必須好好地思索一下。 Before I can give them an answer I'll have to put my thinking cap.
秘書一夜未曾睡著反復(fù)思索著去還是留。 The secretary lay awake all night pondering whether to leave or stay.
