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

• He found it hard to concentrate on conversation so far removed from his present preoccupations
  他发现很难专注于谈话，因为谈话内容和自己目前的当务之急毫不相干。
• You can see this is the point at which Jameson's work is closest to Bakhtin's and most clearly reflects some of the preoccupations of Bakhtin as we have encountered them already.
  大家可以看出，詹姆逊的观点在这个问题上和巴赫金的观点最为相近，最清晰地反映出来自巴赫金的先入之见，我们已经提到过了。
• 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！
• There are many preoccupations that are useful to ascending humans.
  有很多职业是对提升人类有益的。
• 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。
• There, you might say, lies Mr Obama's genius: abroad as well as at home, he has proved one of those rare politicians who invites others to discover in him their own priorities and preoccupations.
  你或许会说，那就是奥巴马的天才所在：在国内外，他都证明了自己是那种罕有的政治家中的一员：能让别人从他身上发现他们自己的当务之急。
• There will be so many becoming ill in the times of cleansing ahead that those choosing such preoccupations will manifest enough to be provided for upon the physical plane.
  前方的净化时代将有如此多人类病倒，因此那些选择了这种职业的人们，将足够显化物质层上的收入。
• We each carry baggage of different kinds, and we each have our own world views, our own domestic preoccupations, and our own sense of our interests.
  我们都有各自不同类型的包袱，我们都有各自的世界观，我们都有各自国内的重点关注和对我们自身利益的看法。
• 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。
• 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。