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

• 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）。
• We project current preoccupations-the rise of China and India, global terror, climate change-with exaggerated speed and to an exaggerated degree.
  我们以夸张的速度和程度预测眼下的当务之急&中国和印度的崛起、全球恐怖主义和气候变化。
• 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。
• The Contents page of the RADIO TIMES actually details what the British public's preoccupations are.
  的目录页实际上具体表明了英国公众最关心的是什么。
• 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。
• 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。
• In so doing, other preoccupations for ascending initiates that move one away from large industry and out of the city can be born.
  这样做，更多支持提升初学者离开大公司和城市的职业能够产生。
• 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。
• 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！
• The proposal from Tim Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, to target the current account takes us back to the preoccupations of John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods conference of July 1944.
  美国财长蒂姆盖特纳（timgeithner）提议为经常账户余额设定指标，这让我们回想起约翰梅纳德凯恩斯（johnmaynardkeynes）在1944年7月的布雷顿森林会议上极力关注的事情。