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。
• 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 are many preoccupations that are useful to ascending humans.
  有很多职业是对提升人类有益的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• Such preoccupations also have an opportunity to bring one greater joy as one chooses that which they enjoy doing in the physical.
  这样的职业也会给你带来更多欢乐的机会，因为你选择了你在物理层上喜欢做的事情。
• We can blame the political philosopher John Locke for our current child-rearing preoccupations.
  我们可以说，导致我们现在如此专注于育儿的，是政治哲学家约翰·洛克（Johnlocke）。
• 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。
• Such humans have multiplied and equate to60% of the current world population; such humans believe that the only purpose of life is to marry and procreate; or find preoccupations that entertain or make one wealthy.
  这类人繁殖到占目前世界人口的60%；这类人相信生活的唯一目的就是结婚生子、或找到可以娱乐或让人富有的职业。