The idea is that the automatic and typical reaction, such as swearing and brooding about disdain for the driver coming up the breakdown lane, now becomes a choice as opposed to an inevitability (Wenk-Sormaz, 2005).
In all his ways of sitting and standing, and eating and drinking - of brooding about, in a high-shouldered reluctant style - of taking out his great horn-handled jack-knife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food - of lifting light glasses and cups to his lips, as if they were clumsy pannikins - of chopping a wedge off his bread, and soaking up with it the last fragments of gravy round and round his plate, as if to make the most of an allowance, and then drying his finger-ends on it, and then swallowing it - in these ways and a thousand other small nameless instances arising every minute in the day, there was Prisoner, Felon, Bondsman, plain as plain could be.
Brooding about past mistakes can prevent you from moving forward.
老是翻来覆去地想着过去犯的错,只会挡住你往前走的路。
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The brooding poet wrote verses about sorrow and hope in quiet solitude.
那位多思的诗人独自一人,在寂静中写下关于忧伤与希望的诗句。
a state of brooding disquietude about a colleague's success.
关心同事的成功与否而陷入沉思的忧虑中
It's about brooding communist revolutionaries in Rome where policemen execute weapon -carrying radicals on the street.
电影是关于罗马的一群沉思中的共产主义革命者的,在那里警察正在抓捕处决街头的武装激进分子。
Would you spend it brooding and thinking about all the stuff you don't have?
你会用它来思考或焦虑那些你没有的东西吗?
Assigned to sentry duty, Naiva took a strip of dried meat and made her way to the edge of the trees, still brooding over the revelation about worlds.
被分配到岗哨勤务的奈瓦,拿了一条肉干并朝树林边缘走去,依然思考着这份关于不同世界的真相。
"I can see it," I said. There was nothing I disliked about the man, but there was a brooding quality about him that made him appear unfriendly.
"可以 看得出来。"我说。我倒没有什么不 喜欢他的,不过他那忧郁的性格使得 他看上去对人不够热情。
She wore a brooding look that made others curious about her thoughts.
她脸上带着若有所思的神情,让人忍不住好奇她在想些什么。
Richard from Texas brought it to my attention recently, when I was complaining about my inability to stop brooding.
德州理查最近让我留意到这点,当时我正在抱怨自 己无法停止沉思。
In her brooding, she found unexpected insights about her life.
在反复琢磨这件事的过程中,她意外地看清了自己的人生。
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