soul-searching
英 [ˈsəʊl sɜːtʃɪŋ]
美 [ˈsoʊl sɜːrtʃɪŋ]
n. 反省; 内省
牛津词典
noun
- 反省;内省
the careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, for example in order to reach the correct decision or solution to sth
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 自我剖析;深刻反省
Soul-searchingis a long and careful examination of your thoughts and feelings, especially when you are trying to make a difficult moral decision or thinking about something that has gone wrong.- My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
这一年来,我真的进行了许多深刻的反思,努力地找出自己的生活中到底哪里出了问题。
- My year was really spent doing a lot of soul-searching and trying to find out what had gone wrong in my life.
英英释义
noun
- a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives
双语例句
- This is not the first time China has engaged in television-inspired soul-searching.
这不是中国第一次采用电视节目来鼓励思想探索。 - Status Offline Today, under Kegan and Lahey's guidance, our group begins to engage in some supervised soul-searching.
如今,在Kegan和Lahey的指导下,我们这个小组开始了指导下的心灵探索。 - Apart from its ritual function of saying farewell to college life, a graduation trip now also serves as a form of escapism and soul-searching for graduates.
除了作为告别大学生活的仪式外,如今的毕业旅行也成了毕业生逃离现实追寻自我的途径之一。 - This isn't the first time that China has done some soul-searching about familial love last year China Daily asked a cross-section of people if they said 'I love you' to their parents, spouses, and children.
这不是中国第一次做关于亲情方面的自省去年《中国日报》就各个阶层的人进行了采访,询问他们是否对父母、爱人和孩子说过我爱你。 - After days of soul-searching he finally came to the decision to leave home.
他经过几天的反躬自问,最终决定离家而去。 - Five years ago, I was going through some serious soul-searching. I was just back in the States after living abroad.
五年前,我一直在认真进行自我反思。当时我正从国外回来,对于前途非常迷茫。 - I do not regard my own confusion as an indictment of modern macroeconomics, but I am struck by the soul-searching that has gripped the profession in the face of the economic crisis.
我不会把自己的困惑当作对现代宏观经济学的指控,但这门学科在面对经济危机之际所突显的自省,令我惊叹不已。 - After the handover in 1997, Hong Kong was soul-searching because the perception was that it would become marginalised in Greater China, she says.
1997年回归后,香港进行了深刻的反思,因为当时有人觉得香港将在大中华区被边缘化,她表示。 - Peter Tufano, a Harvard finance professor, says the case study method and its role in developing arrogant 'students was one of the concerns raised by faculty as Harvard began its months of soul-searching.
哈佛商学院金融学教授彼得图法诺(PeterTufano)表示,随着哈佛开始为期数月的自我反思,个案研究法及其在制造傲慢'学员中的作用,成为教员们关心的问题之一。 - The complaint was about the ordinary telephone, television and even back gardens, which, in the 20th century, provoked the sort of soul-searching we are seeing today.
这番抱怨针对的是寻常的电话、电视机乃至后花园,在20世纪,这些事物激起了与我们今日一样的反思。