| 词汇 | obsession |
| 释义 | obsession noun[ C or U ] uk /əbˈseʃ.ən/ us /əbˈseʃ.ən/ B2 something or someone that you think about all the time: 困扰;无法摆脱的念头;念念不忘的事（或人） an unhealthy obsession with death总是想到死的不健康念头 her chocolate obsession她对巧克力的痴迷 He's always wanted to find his birth mother but recently it's become an obsession.他一直想找到自己的生母，但最近这成了他的一块心病。 He has an obsession with cleanliness. His campaign for fathers' rights has become an obsession. The kids have an obsession with computer games. I've got a bit of a jewellery obsession. Continually thinking about absorb absorbed axe be devoured by somethingidiom be hung up on somethingidiom be wrapped up in something/someoneidiom brain devour fetishize fixate fixated fixation get into someone nag obsessive one-track mind overactive preoccupation preoccupied preoccupy obsession | American Dictionaryobsession noun[ C/U ] us/əbˈseʃ·ən, ɑb-/ the control of one’s thoughts by a continuous, powerful idea or feeling, or the idea or feeling itself: [ U ]His interest in detective stories has turned to obsession. [ C ]They have an obsession with making money. Examples of obsessionobsession For such a thought, like prayer, is easily contaminated by greed, obsessions, fears and self-destructive impulses. This has led to a preoccupation with transcription conventions for recording conversation that, in many people's view, has become an obsession. This absence of love, she argues, stems from an overwhelming obsession with the self, and from an excessive preoccupation with consumerism and material acquisition. The positivist's obsession with establishing the facts as true or false is matched here by an intolerance of moral ambiguity. The fragmentation, in the language of deconstruction, is originary, and as such it sponsors the irrepressible feminine dynamism that is (this) opera's obsession. These tomes were never intended to grace the nightstand of casual nocturnal readers and the author makes no apology for his obsession with detail. His accounts of die 1608 wedding festivities display a concern with crying ladies - one so pervasive as to seem almost an obsession. One proband (2 %) had obsessions only, twelve (21 %) had compulsions only, and forty-four (77 %) had both obsessions and compulsions. So it's a statement about our obsession with the world of illusion. Sovereignty was this government's obsession; the police were its means to secure it. The tonic obsession of its first four bars is 'composed out' over its last fifty. It is this overarching biopolitical concern that gives rise to the obsession with the life and health of the nation. He loves her with precisely the same obsession with which he hates her brother and her father. The miraculous devices through which private obsessions, passions and perversions are translated/ disguised into sound is beyond its scope. Several other incidents later, which our hero meets with the same extreme emotion, he is led to further obsession with her as a love object. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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