preoccupied

🇬🇧/priˈɒkjupaɪd/ 🇺🇸/priˈɑːkjupaɪd/
📚 9024 六级 GRE sat
If you are preoccupied, you are thinking a lot about something or someone, and so you hardly notice other things. 专注的

adjective [原级] 全神贯注的,心事重重的;被先占的

Tom Banbury was preoccupied with the missing Shepherd child and did not want to devote time to the new murder. 汤姆·班伯里一心专注着谢泼德家失踪的孩子,不想在新的谋杀案上花时间。

verb [vt. 及物动词] 使全神贯注,占据(某人的思想);提前占据(preoccupy 的过去式和过去分词形式)

He was preoccupied and had not even listened to Heidi's tales. 他全神贯注,甚至没有听海蒂的故事。

pre + occupy (占据) → 占据某人的思想 → 迷住
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