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 obsession [əb'seʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 困扰, 困扰人的情绪

[医] 强迫观念


  1. Her commitment to a great cause degenerated from a crusade into an obsession.
    她致力於一伟大事业, 但其崇高的奋斗精神已变质成为偏执的狂热.
  2. Caused or conditioned by compulsion or obsession.
    强迫的由强迫或压制所引起或制约的


obsession
[ noun ]
  1. an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

  2. <noun.motive>
    her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly
  3. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

  4. <noun.cognition>


Obsession \Ob*ses"sion\, n. [L. obsessio: cf. F. obsession.]
1. The act of besieging. [archaic] --Johnson.

2. The state of being besieged; -- used specifically of a
person beset by a spirit from without. [archaic] --Tylor.

Whether by obsession or possession, I will not
determine. --Burton.

3. An excessive preoccupation of the thoughts or feelings;
the persistent haunting or domination of the mind by a
particular desire, idea, or image.
[PJC]

4. Hence: Any driving motive; a compelling goal; -- not
necessarily implying a negative judgment, as does sense 3;
as, the coach was obsessed with winning the state
championship
[PJC]

5. Something that causes an obsession[3].
[PJC]

6. The state of being obsessed.
[PJC]

  1. The obsession, continentals feel, is with 'exit' rather than long-term commitment. On the other hand, the stream of flotations and dividends also promotes a dynamic recycling of wealth.
  2. Some of this furniture is on show, but the great Pugin sideboard was destroyed in the Windsor fire of 1992. Pugin's early passion for the Gothic was not a stylistic obsession but a conviction that Gothic was an architecture of principle.
  3. For many in this country where food is a national obsession, Bocuse remains "the emperor" of cuisine, despite the rating of three toques, by the 1989 edition of the Gault-Millau guidebook, which deemed his food not in step with the times.
  4. There was a fairly interesting editorial in the London Sunday Telegraph last week on the subject of crime and punishment, an Anglo-Saxon obsession these days.
  5. Make your obsession their obsession.
  6. Make your obsession their obsession.
  7. Describing the "oil and gas obsession" of the investment community, Ms. Ramsey says that even if those currently sluggish industries were to revive, the area's economy would still need to diversify.
  8. Mr. Wood suggests, in his introduction to the book accompanying the series, that "film is the true successor of the Greek mimetic revolution, and the West is still in the grip of that obsession with the illusion of reality in art."
  9. The play flirts with English class obsession by showing class etiquette in action as the social revolution of 1945 slips into a dystropic past. Coward used the plot to serve up society in aspic.
  10. Mr. Walsh, whose persistence and obsession for detail are matched by his clipped, almost painfully careful public statements, isn't saying what action he will take.
  11. These writers, journalists and broadcasters (as well as others who are less famous) have contributed stories on Philip Morris Magazine's other obsession: America.
  12. As the director David Merrill, Mr. De Niro starts out as a man who hasn't been particularly good or particularly bad. He's been obsessed with film making and he's been rewarded for his obsession.
  13. And because of the Reagan administration's obsession with Nicaragua, he adds, it has failed to notice that the fragile, pro-U.S. government of nearby El Salvador is "on the verge of collapse."
  14. A female friend of Bardo's living in Tennessee called police headquarters early Wednesday to tell police of his obsession, Andrews said.
  15. The bicycle is the main means of transport through Havana; many travel two or even three to a bike. Getting hold of dollars has become an obsession for many Cubans, forcing almost everyone to break the country's restrictive laws.
  16. His opinions, he says, had become "an obsession" and "a mild form of insanity."
  17. There is, for example, something terribly Japanese about the obsession with superficial details of the emperor's condition and the almost total refusal to confront its essential nature.
  18. The project, which had become Mr. Neuharth's obsession, made and broke careers at Gannett.
  19. Thus, says Wright, "the current stock market price-earnings multiple of 12, while only average for the postwar period, may yet prove to be excessive in today's environment." Is the obsession with interest rates overdone?
  20. At the centre of this drama was an epicene upper middle-class youth who had a truly fin de siecle obsession with a classy blonde model.
  21. If fiction is passion, non-fiction is more like obsession.
  22. "Members welcome the change from the paralyzing obsession with scandal and ethics," he said.
  23. This is a standard which implies a need for good government in the recipient country without making it into an obsession.
  24. The synthesizer is his latest home-computing obsession. Mr. Lucky plays both piano and violin, and he always wanted to accompany himself in duets.
  25. Once again, dealers said the market's obsession with another possible cut in the US Fed Funds rate had been the main factor undermining the dollar.
  26. The Beltway insists that the debate focus on the persona of Ronald Reagan, a kind of capital obsession the past six years.
  27. Male nudity is role reversal taken to its logical conclusion. Or it could be the obsession with the perfect body - aerobics, health clubs, all that Jacuzzi.
  28. A researcher who conducted a survey showing one out of 15 teen-age boys may be using steroids warns that such use of the muscle-building drugs may continue unless society ends an obsession with success in athletics.
  29. "The things he's about are obsession and human perfectablity, which makes him unique among the pantheon of superheroes," O'Neill said. "It's about urban fears.
  30. Making the Contras disarm by inauguration day had become nearly an obsession with the Sandinistas, who were trounced in the Feb. 25 election.
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