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单词 obsession
释义
obsession
noun[CorU]
uk
/əbˈseʃ.ən/us
/əbˈseʃ.ən/
B2
something or someone that youthinkabout all thetime:
困扰；无法摆脱的念头；念念不忘的事（或人）
anunhealthyobsessionwithdeath总是想到死的不健康念头
herchocolateobsession她对巧克力的痴迷
He's alwayswantedtofindhisbirthmotherbutrecentlyit'sbecomeanobsession.他一直想找到自己的生母，但最近这成了他的一块心病。
More examples
  • He has an obsession withcleanliness.
  • Hiscampaignforfathers'rightshasbecomean obsession.
  • Thekidshave an obsession withcomputergames.
  • I've got abitof ajewelleryobsession.
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
  • obsessive
  • obsessively
  • one-track mind
  • overactive
  • preoccupation
  • preoccupied
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(Definition ofobsessionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

obsession| American Dictionary

obsession
noun[C/U]
us
/əbˈseʃ·ən,ɑb-/
thecontrolof one’sthoughtsby acontinuous,powerfulideaorfeeling, or theideaorfeelingitself:
[U]Hisinterestindetectivestorieshasturnedto obsession.
[C]They have an obsession with makingmoney.
(Definition ofobsessionfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofobsession

obsession
For such a thought, like prayer, is easily contaminated by greed, obsessions, fears and self-destructive impulses.
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This has led to a preoccupation with transcription conventions for recording conversation that, in many people's view, has become anobsession.
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This absence of love, she argues, stems from an overwhelmingobsessionwith the self, and from an excessive preoccupation with consumerism and material acquisition.
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The positivist'sobsessionwith establishing the facts as true or false is matched here by an intolerance of moral ambiguity.
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The fragmentation, in the language of deconstruction, is originary, and as such it sponsors the irrepressible feminine dynamism that is (this) opera'sobsession.
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These tomes were never intended to grace the nightstand of casual nocturnal readers and the author makes no apology for hisobsessionwith detail.
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His accounts of die 1608 wedding festivities display a concern with crying ladies - one so pervasive as to seem almost anobsession.
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One proband (2 %) had obsessions only, twelve (21 %) had compulsions only, and forty-four (77 %) had both obsessions and compulsions.
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So it's a statement about ourobsessionwith the world of illusion.
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Sovereignty was this government'sobsession; the police were its means to secure it.
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The tonicobsessionof its first four bars is 'composed out' over its last fifty.
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It is this overarching biopolitical concern that gives rise to theobsessionwith the life and health of the nation.
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He loves her with precisely the sameobsessionwith which he hates her brother and her father.
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The miraculous devices through which private obsessions, passions and perversions are translated/ disguised into sound is beyond its scope.
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Several other incidents later, which our hero meets with the same extreme emotion, he is led to furtherobsessionwith her as a love object.
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