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 preoccupied [pri:'ɒkjupaid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 被先占的, 入神的, 一心一意的



    preoccupied
    [ adj ]
    1. deeply absorbed in thought

      2. <adj.all>
      as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class
      lost in thought
      a preoccupied frown
    2. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something

      3. <adj.all>
      became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle
      was absolutely obsessed with the girl
      got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children
      he was taken up in worry for the old woman


    Preoccupy \Pre*oc"cu*py\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preoccupied}
    (-p[=i]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Preoccupying}.] [Cf. F.
    pr['e]occuper. See {Preoccupate}, {Occupy}.]
    1. To take possession of before another; as, to preoccupy a
    country not before held.

    2. To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention
    of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice.

    I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave
    something to reflections than to preoccupy his
    judgment. --Arbuthnot.

    1. Adoptive parents, too, are seeking help from the agencies, saying their children are preoccupied with the question of where they came from.
    2. Mr. Garron responds that any manager too preoccupied to keep tabs on workers' offensive behavior "is in deep sneakers."
    3. Moreover, other Arab nations have spent the last eight years preoccupied with the fundamentalist threat from Tehran.
    4. The report was largely ignored by the financial markets, which have been preoccupied with anxiety over higher inflation and rising interest rates spawned by other signs of rapid economic growth.
    5. They are too preoccupied with their own problems.' A situation would arise in which the finance industry supervisors and the National Bank had to mount a rescue action.
    6. American Medical International, which agreed to be acquired last month, had a 37% earnings decline due largely to poor cost controls while management was preoccupied with the sale.
    7. Mr. Yamani, the sources said, was too preoccupied with the Byzantine aspects of international oil politics to pay much attention to the national oil industry.
    8. The Oct. 19 stock-market crash held up the loan for several weeks, the minister said, because banks were overwhelmingly preoccupied with the market plunge.
    9. Early in the trading session the market remained in negative territory, preoccupied with evidence of an upward drift in world interest rates.
    10. Another reason big computer investments haven't paid off in increased productivity is that companies sometimes are preoccupied with marketing maneuvers.
    11. 'Many nations would prefer that Ukraine did not exist.' A year ago, when Ukraine was preoccupied with establishing its place in the world, no one in Kiev would have dared to speak so bluntly.
    12. The effort to push stock market crash legislation through Congress before lawmakers become preoccupied with the summer political conventions has produced some strange bedfellows.
    13. Even then, Mr. Gates appeared more preoccupied with protecting the agency's flank than pursuing the evidence presented to him.
    14. Turkey's shabby treatment by the European Community and by a NATO preoccupied with implausibly extreme contingencies on the inter-German border has reduced Turkish ardor to be helpful.
    15. Moreover, many of the prospective out-of-state suitors are preoccupied these days dealing with troubled loans to less-developed countries and with meeting new capital requirements.
    16. And when the company, or its market, is in trouble, a major investment-banking firm may be too preoccupied with large clients to help, some say.
    17. Most of them are preoccupied by the necessity of maintaining their fragile profitability in the corporate sector.
    18. Mahallati contended that Iran had been preoccupied by its war with Iraq, and only now has been able to spare time to respond to international criticism.
    19. Feminism is the only intellectually respectable political movement that is essentially moral: theoretically preoccupied with what kind of people we want to produce and how we go about producing them.
    20. Romania's 23 million citizens are largely preoccupied in coping with severe food shortages.
    21. Smurfs, the lovable blue gnomes with four fingers and a special language, were born in 1958 when a preoccupied cartoonist called Peyo asked a friend to pass the salt but said "schtroumpf" instead.
    22. Traders have been preoccupied in recent weeks, said Nina Lipton, research manager for the Platinum Group International, an industrial group.
    23. The FDIC, he noted, is likely to be preoccupied in the future with weakness in the banking industry.
    24. "The Americans were preoccupied with all the legal problems" and risks, he says.
    25. Now Japanese officials are dismayed to see him preoccupied with domestic considerations.
    26. Their grandmother is preoccupied with the vista outside the window, pristine soft snow and black rock, snow so deep it reaches the roofs of fishing cabins.
    27. The two largest communist powers, Russia and China, are preoccupied with internal experiments, and hence aren't giving us much trouble.
    28. With Japan's economy in its 42nd consecutive month of expansion, steelmakers have been preoccupied with meeting strong demand from domestic industries, such as auto making, shipbuilding and construction.
    29. The new fear about the impact of monetary union injected new uncertainty into the U.S. bond market, which had been preoccupied with the mixed results of the latest Treasury refunding auction.
    30. The issue of competitiveness has preoccupied the Department of Trade and Industry and the Confederation of British Industry for the past year and more.
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