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preoccupy
preoccupy, v. (priːˈɒkjʊpaɪ) [f. pre- A. 1 + occupy, after L. præoccupāre to seize beforehand. Cf. F. préoccuper (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] 1. trans. To occupy or engage beforehand; to engross to the exclusion of other things; † to prepossess, to bias.1567 Drant Horace, Epist. To Rdr., Amarouse Pamp... Oxford English Dictionary
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preoccupy
preoccupy/pri:ˈɔkjupaɪ; pri`ɑkjəˌpaɪ/ v(pt, pp -pied) [Tn]engage (sb or his mind, thoughts, etc) so that he cannot think of other things; obsess 占据（某人）思想; 使（某人）心无二用; 迷住 Something seems to be preoccupying her at the moment. 她此刻若有所思. Health worries preoccupied him for the whole holiday. 整个假期里他一直为健康状况而... 牛津英汉双解词典
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Success (novel)
Themes Success is Amis's first statement of the doppelganger theme that would also preoccupy the novels Money, London Fields, and, especially, 1995's wikipedia.org
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The Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories
Contents Reception Reviewing the book in The Spectator, Wendy Erskine said: "[T]he stories of this collection display the concerns that would preoccupy wikipedia.org
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preoccupied
preoccupied, ppl. a. (priːˈɒkjʊpaɪd) [f. preoccupy v. + -ed1.] Occupied previously. a. Absorbed in thought, abstracted. b. Zool. and Bot. Of a name: already occupied or used for something else.1842 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 113 The genus of birds, Plectorhynchus, being preoccupied in Ichthyology, ... Oxford English Dictionary
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preoccupately
† preˈoccupately, adv. Obs. rare—1. [f. preoccupate a. + -ly2.] In a preoccupied manner; in quot., so as to preoccupy.a 1628 F. Grevil Hum. Learn. xii, Abstracts the imagination or distasts With images preoccupately plac'd. Oxford English Dictionary
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The best defense is a good offense
Generally, the idea is that proactivity (a strong offensive action) instead of a passive attitude will preoccupy the opposition and ultimately hinder its wikipedia.org
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preoccupate
▪ I. † ˈpreoccupate, a. Obs. rare—0. [ad. L. præoccupāt-us, pa. pple. of præoccupāre to preoccupy.] = preoccupated.1656 Blount Glossogr., Preoccupate, prevented, over⁓reached, taken aforehand.▪ II. † ˈpreoccupate, v. Obs. [f. ppl. stem of L. præoccupāre to preoccupy: see occupate v.] 1. trans. To ta... Oxford English Dictionary
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Arthur Headlam
His 1920 Bampton Lectures showed the theme of ecumenism that would preoccupy him. wikipedia.org
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Rousseau's book the word "reverie" had a negative connotation: a 1771 dictionary defined the word as "ridiculous imagination" or "anxieties and cares that preoccupy wikipedia.org
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preoccupancy
preoccupancy (priːˈɒkjʊpənsɪ) [f. pre- A. 2 + occupancy; cf. preoccupy.] 1. The fact of occupying previously; previous or earlier occupancy; = preoccupation 3.1755 Johnson, Preoccupancy, the act of taking possession before another. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 632 The Indians had an undisputed title to... Oxford English Dictionary
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Preoccupied: "全神贯注"还是"心事重重"？ - 百家号
Sep 6, 2022汉语的"心事重重"和"全神贯注"差得可远了。. Preoccupied是形容词，它是从动词preoccupy派生来的。. Preoccupy=pre-+occupy。. 最初于1560s使用时，其pre-是"时间维度在前面"，即preoccupy为engage (the attention of) beforehand, engross in advance of。. 1620s始见"空间维度在前面 ...
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Igi (short story)
The vivid narration reveals a very strange world, where feelings often seem bizarre, and where one can find many answers to questions that still preoccupy wikipedia.org
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Showing that a integral of complex variables goes to zero. I want to prove that the following $$\lim_{L \to \infty} - \int_{-L}^{L-i \omega} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \mathrm{e}^{-\frac{z^2}{2} } \mathrm{d} z $$ is zero. ...
SInce $$\int \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \mathrm{e}^{-\frac{z^2}{2} } \, dz=\frac{1}{2} \text{erf}\left(\frac{z}{\sqrt{2}}\right)$$ $$I=\int_{-L}^{L-i \omega} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \mathrm{e}^{-\frac{z^2}{2} } \,d z=\frac{1}{2} \left(\text{erf}\left(\frac{L}{\sqrt{2}}\right)+\text{erf}\left(\frac{L-i \ome...
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China Venture
Walters Source: Theme China Venture is almost unique among Seigel's films, in that it lacks the key character elements that normally preoccupy the director wikipedia.org
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