preoccupation

音標發(fā)音

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.
研究這種反饋可能發(fā)生的程度以及制定應對的策略將是氣候科學家們在未來幾年的當務之急。
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.
在令人失望的埃爾熱和他筆下與暴君作勇敢斗爭的丁丁之間，有一點密切相關，那就是對無能為力的合理化：很歐洲式的搶先占領。
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.
因此他只好容許她在他的思想中存在，認為自己這種專注的心情，只不過是一個哲學家對一個極其新穎、艷麗和有趣的婦女典型的關注而已。

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.
我想說的是，塔尼森認為,英語中最動人的兩個詞是“,這是他對于追求詩歌聽覺效果的執(zhí)念。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節(jié)選
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.
艾肯鮑姆總談論,堂吉訶德，果戈理的外套是是怎么塑造的-,這反映了俄國形式主義者,對文本組合方式的執(zhí)著。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節(jié)選
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.
我想我們得知道,他正被救贖的問題所困擾,在他被次糾纏時,他看不到任何事;,也看不到任何人。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

It was, in the end, too small and indulgent a preoccupation, too unlike a genuine destiny.
ECONOMIST: Victorian poetry

If you have a preoccupation with something or someone, you keep thinking about them because they are important to you.
Preoccupation is a state of mind in which you think about something so much that you do not consider other things to be important.

先占
Preoccupation system originated from Roman law,is one of primitive acquisition mode of ownership.
先占制度起源于羅馬法,是所有權的原始取得方式之一。
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