preoccupation

常见例句

Working out the likely extent of such feedback processes and devising strategies to fight them will be a major preoccupation for climate scientists in the coming years.
研究这种反馈可能发生的程度以及制定应对的策略将是气候科学家们在未来几年的当务之急。
There is a link between Hergé, this disappointing man, and his creation Tintin, who fights against despots so bravely. It lies in the rationalisation of impotence: a very European preoccupation.
在令人失望的埃尔热和他笔下与暴君作勇敢斗争的丁丁之间，有一点密切相关，那就是对无能为力的合理化：很欧洲式的抢先占领。
So he allowed his mind to be occupied with her, deeming his preoccupation to be no more than a philosopher's regard of an exceedingly novel, fresh, and interesting specimen of womankind.
因此他只好容许她在他的思想中存在，认为自己这种专注的心情，只不过是一个哲学家对一个极其新颖、艳丽和有趣的妇女典型的关注而已。

I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.
我想说的是，塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。
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Those titles that Eikhenbaum keeps talking about -How Don Quixote was Made, How Gogol's Overcoat was Made- reflect the preoccupation of the Russian formalists with how literature is put together.
艾肯鲍姆总谈论,堂吉诃德，果戈理的外套是是怎么塑造的-,这反映了俄国形式主义者,对文本组合方式的执着。
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I think we're meant to understand that he is so focused on the question of redemption that he fails to see anything else; he fails to see anyone else in his preoccupation with that problem.
我想我们得知道,他正被救赎的问题所困扰,在他被次纠缠时,他看不到任何事;,也看不到任何人。
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It was, in the end, too small and indulgent a preoccupation, too unlike a genuine destiny.
ECONOMIST: Victorian poetry
For China's strategic planners, securing sea lanes against hostile powers has become perhaps the chief preoccupation.
ECONOMIST: Banyan
German engineers, who focus squarely on the driving experience, couldn't understand the Americans' preoccupation with beverages.
FORBES: German Touch