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单词 preoccupation
释义
preoccupation
noun
uk
/priːˌɒk.jəˈpeɪ.ʃən/us
/priːˌɑː.kjəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
[C]
anideaorsubjectthat someonethinksabout most of thetime:
（时常想的）想法、事情
Mymainpreoccupation now istryingtokeeplifenormalfor thesakeof my twoboys.我现在想得最多的是要为了我的两个儿子而尽力使生活保持正常。
[CorU]
thestateof beingworriedabout orthinkingabout something most of thetime:
全神贯注，入神；心事重重
Lately, his preoccupationwithfootballhadcausedhismarksatschooltoslip.最近他一心想着足球，学习成绩都下降了。
Synonyms
alarm(WORRY)
concern(WORRY)
consternation
distress
worry
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Continually thinking about
  • absorb
  • absorbed
  • axe
  • be devoured bysomethingidiom
  • be hung up onsomethingidiom
  • be wrapped up insomething/someoneidiom
  • devour
  • fetishize
  • fixate
  • fixated
  • fixation
  • get intosomeone
  • mania
  • nag
  • obsession
  • obsessive
  • obsessively
  • one-track mind
  • overactive
  • preoccupied
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Anxiety and worry - general words
(Definition ofpreoccupationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

preoccupation| American Dictionary

preoccupation
noun[C/U]
us
/priˌɑk·jəˈpeɪ·ʃən/
the thing youthinkabout most:
[U]His preoccupation withsportsisaffectinghisgrades.
(Definition ofpreoccupationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpreoccupation

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The preoccupations of this administrative elite prove remarkably similar to the topics of deliberative oratory : the competing claims of prudence, honour, and necessity.
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As such, a review of syllabus types closely parallels the salient preoccupations of the field of language teaching over time.
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Neither first-order concerns about scientific accounting, whatever that could mean, nor second-order preoccupations with research methodology need to be taken too seriously.
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Where this happened it took away precious time and enormous energy from other economic and social preoccupations.
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Flannery progresses through a series of chapters on individual texts where the issue of illusion is examined through a set of related preoccupations.
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The preoccupations present as a young child persisted.
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They are part of the pursuit of a wider concept of wellbeing that draws on the preoccupations of the body in postmodernity.
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When modern preoccupations are set aside, we are led to wonder whether lex in this context is correctly interpreted as 'law' and historia as 'history'.
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More likely it reinforces a suspicion (and perhaps fear) that the preoccupations of the specialist do not capture the wider imagination.
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As a result of such preoccupations, there has been at best a limited recognition of even the existence of labour-capital relations within artisanal production.
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Emotional eating was also significantly correlated with food preoccupations, unlike restrained eating.
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What are the preoccupations - thematic, formal, and pragmatic - of practitioners producing site-specific performance?
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Precedents for the integration of technical and ethical preoccupations could in fact be found in the remarks of the luminaries themselves.
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During the eighteenth century, theological concerns and philosophical preoccupations impacted each other in equal measure.
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Despite the small theatre coteries in which they moved, the differences in their educational, religious, and client-patronage ambits contributed to divergent dramaturgic practices and preoccupations.
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