| 单词 | absorbed in thought |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabsorbed (also engrossed) in thought d. absorbed (also engrossed) in thought. ΚΠ 1754 C. Lennox tr. L. Ariosto in Shakespear Illustr. III. 253 He stood apart from theThrong, absorbed in Thought,and wholly insensible of the Tumult aroundhim. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. iii. 26 She went in to his Lordship, whom she found absorbed in thought about the vision. 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 135/1 Marmaduke was so engrossed in thought that he heard her imperfectly. 1838 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby (1839) iii. 26/1 ‘Yes, mother, yes,’ said Nicholas, who had hitherto remained silent and absorbed in thought. 1932 F. T. Cooper tr. F. Donauer Swords against Carthage xxi. 218 Blandina remained absorbed in thought. 1991 Oxf. Art Jrnl. 14 i. 82/1 They show the head and bust of the subject..with the first appearing deeply absorbed in thought. 2004 H. Southworth Intersecting Realities 185 She asks her audience to imagine her as a fisherman engrossed in thought, a fishing rod in her hand. < as lemmas |
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