preoccupation

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preoccupation 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 抢先占据, 先人之见, 入神

[医] 成见, 注意散漫, 心不在焉

英文释义

n. an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention

n. the mental state of being preoccupied by something

preoccupation 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 preoccupation 在自然语境里怎么用：

Trying to appease two audiences at once, Jewish and Greek, he instinctively combined their preoccupations.

—— St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

But getting everything in a database so software can see it is a preoccupation of the AI industry.

—— THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

More important, Paul’s preoccupations with the politics of circumcision, and with Jewish ritual generally, seem to fit badly within a first-century, pre-Jewish War context.

—— St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It?

The subject reports that her chief preoccupation is to "somehow get through the day" when combating tiredness, and struggling with an ever present threat of a fallback into addiction.

—— Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

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