Our modern world is preoccupied with technological advancements.

我们的现代世界全神贯注于技术进步。

While the child was preoccupied with the stranger the parent would leave.

当孩子全神贯注于陌生人时，父母会离开。

" Because people were preoccupied with the virus, culture and heritage got forgotten — and dangerously, " she said.

" 由于人们全神贯注于病毒，文化和遗产被遗忘了——这很危险。"

But these days they're preoccupied with their mobile phones and tablets and not spending much time outside.

但如今他们都专注于手机和平板电脑，很少在户外花时间娱乐。

I usually do my shopping earlier, but with the recent events in Paris, I was preoccupied with other things.

我通常会很早就去购物，但最近巴黎发生的事情使我全神贯注于其他事情。

Like Dickens's characters, Ms Smith's are preoccupied with roots—yet class and identity had come to mean something quite different.

与狄更斯笔下的人物一样，史密斯女士刻画的角色也一心牵挂着根系所在——但阶级与身份的内涵已大相径庭。

And not unnaturally, she was preoccupied with herself.

并非不自然的是，她全神贯注于自己。

Lastly, poetry is political because it's preoccupied with people.

最后，诗歌是政治性的，因为它关注的是人。

During the autumn of 1940, Halifax was preoccupied with the question of France.

1940 年秋，哈利法克斯全神贯注于法国问题。

Back then, investors were preoccupied with covid's economic fallout, the development and deployment of vaccines, and the pace of economic reopening.

当时，投资者一心关注新冠疫情的经济后果、疫苗的研发和部署以及经济重新开放的速度。

Since the Renaissance, Western European painting had been preoccupied with creating an illusion of a three-dimensional space on a flat, two-dimensional surface.

自文艺复兴以来，西欧绘画一直专注于在平坦的二维表面上创建三维空间的错觉。

You know that I am preoccupied with this case of the two Coptic Patriarchs, which should come to a head to-day.

你知道我正忙于处理两个科普特族长的案子， 这应该是今天一个头。

Consider two states: one where you're attentive to what's going on right now, and one where you're preoccupied with the past and the future.

一种是专注于当下发生的事情，另一种是专注于过去和未来。

These suggest that performance suffers when the mind is preoccupied with worries, doubts, or fears, instead of focusing its attention on performing the task at hand.

该理论认为当担忧、疑惑和恐惧 占据了人们的头脑，让人们无法集中注意力在手头的任务，其表现就会受到影响。

Even though philosophers may have been preoccupied with a number of pseudoproblems, you mustn't give up now over the construction of an argument.

尽管哲学家们可能一直专注于许多伪问题，但您现在不能放弃论证的构建。

People high in anxiety are less secure in themselves and tend to see others as the solution, so they tend to be preoccupied with seeking intimacy and support from their partners.

高度焦虑的人对自己的安全感较低，倾向于将他人视为解决问题的方法，因此他们往往专注于寻求伴侣的亲密和支持。

After all, since meeting Macarthur and beginning to write about those crimes, I myself had been preoccupied with a similar problem: how does one turn a life, or a death, into a story?

毕竟，自从遇见麦克阿瑟并开始写关于那些犯罪的事情后，我自己一直在思考一个类似的问题：如何将生命或死亡转化为一个故事呢？

This is, like we said earlier, somewhat of a surprise, because we have been preoccupied with the new stories that we being able to read about people's intention to get married and have children across this society overall.

就像我们之前说的 这有点令人惊讶 因为我们一直专注于新的故事 我们能够读到整个社会中人们结婚生子的意愿。