preoccupations

英 [pri(ː)ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃənz]

美 [priˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃənz]

n.  盘算; 思虑; 长久思考的事情; 心事重重; 忧心忡忡; 全神贯注
preoccupation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 念念不忘；执著
  If you have apreoccupation withsomething or someone, you keep thinking about them because they are important to you.
  1. Karouzos's poetry shows a profound preoccupation with the Orthodox Church...
     卡鲁佐斯的诗歌表明他对东正教的执着。
  2. In his preoccupation with Robyn, Crook had neglected everything.
     克鲁克一心想着罗宾，忽略了其他一切事情。
• N-UNCOUNT 全神贯注；入神
  Preoccupationis a state of mind in which you think about something so much that you do not consider other things to be important.
  1. It was hard for him to be aware of her; he kept sinking back into black preoccupation.
     他很难意识到她的存在；他一直沉浸在沮丧中。

双语例句

• There are many preoccupations that are useful to ascending humans.
  有很多职业是对提升人类有益的。
• Their name deftly combines two of the big preoccupations of teenage boys.
  乐队名字巧妙地融合了男孩子关注的两大主题。
• What's more, we feel guilty that we are worrying about our declining looks, because feminism has taught us to be above such trivial preoccupations.
  女性主义教导我们不要太过把精力放在这种小事儿上，因此当我们为自己逐渐消逝的青春所烦恼的时候，我们会有一些负罪感。
• It is for this reason that Rabbit suggests that ascending humans withdraw as much as possible from such preoccupations.
  正因为如此，兔子建议提升人类尽可能离开这些事物。
• The book has several of the author's characteristic preoccupations.
  书中好些地方显示出了作者的创作特色。
• With a leadership transition due in 2012, Beijing has its own domestic preoccupations.
  鉴于领导层将在2012年换届，北京方面有自己的国内优先事务。
• Thousands of years later soyabeans maintain their importance to the Chinese and most other Asians, but they have recently triggered much more down-to-earth preoccupations.
  几千年后，对于中国和其它多数亚洲国家而言，大豆依然重要。但在最近，大豆引发了更为现实的关注。
• In the UK, there may be many Mrs Smiths with similar preoccupations.
  在英国，可能有许多“史密斯夫人”持类似理念。
• He inherited characteristic Puritan preoccupations with sin, with gilt and with secrecy.
  他继承了清教特有的关于原罪、罪过和隐秘的观念。
• A pension is not usually one of the preoccupations of an eighteen year-old!
  一个十八岁的人通常是不会老惦着养老金的！