Preoccupy
[priː'ɒkjʊpaɪ] or [pri'ɑkjə'pai]
解释:
(verb.) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; 'His work preoccupies him'; 'The matter preoccupies her completely--she cannot think of anything else'.
(verb.) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; 'the army preoccupied the hills'.
手打:洛伊斯--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a country not before held.
(v. t.) To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.
手打:帕特丽夏
解释:
v.t. to occupy or take possession of beforehand: to fill beforehand or with prejudices.—ns. Prēoc′cupancy the act or the right of occupying beforehand; Prēoc′cupant a prior occupant.—v.t. Prēoc′cupāte (Bacon) to occupy before others.—n. Prēoccupā′tion.—adj. Prēoc′cupied already occupied: lost in thought abstracted.
录入:特伦特
例句:
- She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Scarcely a day passed that did not find Professor Porter straying in his preoccupied indifference toward the jaws of death. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The bar-maid appeared from the inner regions of the parlour, excited and preoccupied. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- A rose lay beside her, and if she now and then glanced at the flower, it was with no infraction of her usual preoccupied air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- She had a preoccupied look, and she made her apologies for being late rather absently. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I could not wonder at this after the reception his preoccupied mind had given to my guardian's letter, but I determined to try Ada's influence yet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He was preoccupied only with animals and men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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