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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 are many preoccupations that are useful to ascending humans.
  有很多职业是对提升人类有益的。
• 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）。
• 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。
• Yet even in this highly politicised milieu, the material comforts of my life back home were among their chief preoccupations.
  然而，甚至在这种高度政治化的环境下，我家里富足的物质生活也是他们重点关注的东西。
• Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations.
  随后，这些使他触景生情的阴惨事儿从他的脑子里消失了，他重新回到他惯常的忆念中。