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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Japanese crowd did not appear to have the same preoccupations that I had.
  走在日本的大街上，人群中似乎没有人抱着跟我一样的想法。
• 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, 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。
• 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 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。