释义 |
preˈoccupying, ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ing2.] That preoccupies (in various senses of the vb.).
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 259 So little can he suffer a man to measure..what is short or what tedious without his preoccupying direction. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola x, A smile..was soon quenched by some pre⁓occupying thought. 1893W. G. Collingwood Ruskin II. 151 His patience in the midst of pre-occupying labour and severest trial. |