preoccupying 的定义
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.
preoccupying 近义词
absorb
更多preoccupying例句
- 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.