obsession

英 [əbˈseʃn]

美 [əbˈseʃn]

n.  痴迷; 着魔; 困扰; 使人痴迷的人(或物)

复数：obsessions　

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Collins.2 / BNC.6354 / COCA.5558

牛津词典

noun

• 痴迷；着魔；困扰
  the state in which a person's mind is completely filled with thoughts of one particular thing or person in a way that is not normal
  1. Her fear of flying is bordering on obsession.
     她怕乘飞机几乎到了不可救药的地步。
  2. The media's obsession with the young prince continues.
     新闻媒体继续对小王子进行连篇累牍的报道。
• 使人痴迷的人（或物）
  a person or thing that sb thinks about too much
  1. Fitness has become an obsession with him.
     他迷上了健身。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 着迷；困扰；强迫观念
  If you say that someone has anobsessionwith a person or thing, you think they are spending too much time thinking about them.
  1. She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher...
     她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
  2. 95% of patients know their obsessions are irrational.
     95％的病人都知道他们的痴迷是不理智的。

英英释义

noun

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
  Synonym:fixation
• an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will
  1. her compulsion to wash her hands repeatedly
  Synonym:compulsion

双语例句

• I note with consternation Europeans 'obsession with regulating hedge funds and tax havens.
  我惊愕地注意到，欧洲方面对于监管对冲基金和避税港颇为迷恋。
• We thought we had found a way to blunt the obsession with Vietnam.
  我们认为我们找到了冲淡对越南问题注意力的方法。
• She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher
  她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
• I wondered whether this might also increase her obsession with sex.
  我不知道这是否也增强了她对性的痴迷与执着。
• Love me or hate me, its still an obsession.
  爱我，还是恨我，依旧是个困扰。
• This initial fascination has rapidly grown into obsession that eventually took control over my life.
  最初的魅力，这已迅速成长为迷恋，最终接管了我的生活的控制。
• The obsession with measurement in data and school reform has reached nutty new heights.
  对于用数据进行衡量和学校改革的痴迷已经达到了狂热的新高度。
• But I do understand the appeal of it. People have always had this obsession, infatuation with vampires.
  但我懂吸血鬼的吸引力人们总是对吸血鬼很痴迷。
• His parents 'obsession with keeping up appearances haunted his childhood.
  父母过于爱面子的做法在他儿时一直困扰着他。
• Although naturalism had not become an obsession among American writers by1914, it clearly commanded the allegiance of a majority of serious young writers.
  到1914年，虽然自然主义在美国作家中没有成为一种固定的观念，但它明显得到多数严肃青年作者的忠诚。