For hundreds, maybe thousands of years we've all been obsessed by time.

数百年来，也许是上千年来，我们都是跟时间紧密相连的。

He's obsessed by his old memories and it's breaking his heart.

他从前的回忆苦苦纠缠着他，他很伤心，很难过。

I make no apology for being obsessed by a particular feature of these objects: their price.

对这些物品的一个特性——它们的价格——我着迷并不觉得有何歉意。

From time to time he was obsessed by dreams of goodness.

他不时地被善良的梦想所困扰。

She entered their obsequies, and was obsessed by some obscure mood.

她参加了她们的葬礼，并被一些模糊情绪困扰住了。

Luke Howard was a pharmacist by profession, but he was a meteorologist by inclination, having been obsessed by clouds and weather since childhood.

职业上，卢克霍华德是一名药剂师，志趣上，他是一名气象学者，他从童年就对云和天气十分着迷。

Then follows a long series of postulates, which I will not here discuss, but which show how Tolstoy was obsessed by the idea of reason.

接下来是一长串假设，我不会在这里讨论这些假设，但它们表明托尔斯泰是如何痴迷于理性的观念。

And something else I'd like to show you is this wonderful Bruno Paul furniture, which Karl was obsessed by reupholstered in Karl's fabulous colors, a sort of German, expressionist blue.

我还想给你们看样东西，就是这套非常漂亮的布鲁诺保罗家具，卡尔非常喜欢，给它重新换装了一种奇妙的德国表现主义派蓝色。

He was obsessed by an idea, the idea of " the other one, " the murderer, the assassin, whom he knew to be still clinging to his footsteps.

他被一个想法所困扰， “另一个人” 的想法，凶手，刺客，他知道他仍然紧跟他的脚步。

By contrast, what we love is what we are obsessed by anyway, we'd do it for free — which decisively increases our chances of mastery while reducing the price of failure.

相比之下，为了热爱的事情我们愿意投入一切，不计回报，这将会决定性地增加我们成功的机会，同时也降低了失败的代价。

It's great that there are other people and I get some stuff from that but, you know, I've found this thing, my telephone, my Scrabble set, whatever it is I'm obsessed by, and I'm still obsessed by it.

很高兴有其他人，我从中得到了一些东西，但是，你知道，我找到了这个东西，我的电话，我的拼字游戏，无论我沉迷于什么，我仍然沉迷于它。