性格外向的人喜欢高谈阔论，而不愿思索人生的意义。 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）拒绝了权威和教条主义，赞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.
优秀的学者“主动留心于”新信息，他们对读到的东西进行思索，以挑战的精神对待它，融会贯通，使之成为自己的东西。 Good learners become "actively involved" with new information.They think about what they read, challenge it, make it their own.
在我回答他们之前，我必须好好地思索一下。 Before I can give them an answer I'll have to put my thinking cap.
秘书一夜未曾睡着反复思索着去还是留。 The secretary lay awake all night pondering whether to leave or stay.
