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preoccupying

/pree-ok-yuh-pahy/US // priˈɒk yəˌpaɪ //UK // (priːˈɒkjʊˌpaɪ) //

烦人的,忙乱的,冗长的,烦人

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·oc·cu·pied, pre·oc·cu·py·ing.

    • : to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
    • : to occupy beforehand or before others.

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Examples

  • To modern workers everywhere,To modern workers everywhere,In the 1960s, American architects were preoccupied with erecting iconic buildings along city skylines.

  • In the 1960s, America’s architects were mostly preoccupied with erecting iconic buildings along city skylines.

  • These days, Brown gets up every morning, logs on to her computer and pretends to work while her son is preoccupied with school assignments.

  • We won’t be preoccupied with cooking or getting ready for guests.

  • Both can be preoccupied with beauty, but design also has to function to be successful.

  • “They” want to “stop us from talking about subjects that preoccupy you,” he argued.

  • To preoccupy this ground, therefore, seemed an important step.

  • On a first reading, the pathetic passages preoccupy the reader, and he is cheated out of an alms in the shape of sympathy.

  • He refers, for proof of his statements, mostly to English documents, and does not try to preoccupy your mind.

  • The Government should preoccupy itself largely with this matter of assimilation: for the process is not complete.

  • She expostulated earnestly with him on the folly of allowing money cares and ambitions to preoccupy him.