Obsession
[əb'seʃ(ə)n] or [əb'sɛʃ(ə)n]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of besieging.
(n.) The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a person beset by a spirit from without.
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解釋/意思:
n. persistent attack esp. of an evil spirit upon a person: the state of being so molested from without—opp. to Possession or control by an evil spirit from within.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Their obsession now is the weakening of the commissariat for war. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Since the death of Diana, and the development of his illness, his craving for surety with regard to Winifred amounted almost to obsession. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He was always talking of such a necessity and it was his obsession. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He posed as a king, but his ruling passion was that common obsession of our kind, the pursuit of women, tempered by a superstitious fear of hell. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She saw his clenched, mechanical body moving there like an obsession. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He had a fear of such a possibility and it became an obsession. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was a dreadful tyranny, an obsession in her, to know all he knew. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The first of these limitations was the obsession of the Greek mind by the idea of the city as the ultimate state. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was his obsession. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Each one for all the obsessions of self is yet dimly aware of something in common, of something that could make a unity out of our infinite diversity. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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