英语词汇“obsess”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINobsess

Origin:

1500-1600 Latin past participle of obsidere ‘to besiege’

VERB TABLE

obsess

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	obsess
	he, she, it	obsesses
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	obsessed
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have obsessed
	he, she, it	has obsessed
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had obsessed
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will obsess
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have obsessed

Continuous Form
Present	I	am obsessing
	he, she, it	is obsessing
	you, we, they	are obsessing
Past	I, he, she, it	was obsessing
	you, we, they	were obsessing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been obsessing
	he, she, it	has been obsessing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been obsessing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be obsessing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been obsessing

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Some women obsess about their thighs and stomachs.
The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

And he becomes obsessed with this tape.
Arax, then 15, became obsessed with the murder, which was never solved.
It was the side that seemed unnecessarily obsessed with the dark, seedy side of life.
Sabich is obsessed, you said.
The intermittent, flickering reality that obsesses Gael is, from the Catholic perspective, itself but a delusion.
The longer you provide wifely comforts while he obsesses about this woman, the worse it's going to be.
The more our rational faculty is suppressed, the more obsessed we are by it.
Will the next millennium see man obsessed by athletic entertainment to the exclusion of other kinds of culture?

Longman Language Activatorso interested that you give all your attention to something► absorbed

so interested in something that you give it all your attention and do not notice or pay attention to other things: absorbed in: · Penny and Sam were so absorbed in their game, that they didn't hear me call.· Dad was obviously far too absorbed in his own difficulties to be interested in mine.· I saw Bill walking across the park, absorbed in his own thoughts.

► gripped/riveted

extremely interested by a book, film, event etc or by what someone is saying, so that you cannot stop reading, watching, listening etc: · It was a brilliant documentary. I sat absolutely riveted from beginning to end.· I was completely gripped as soon as I opened the book. gripped/riveted by: · We stopped the car, riveted by the sight of a village wedding in progress.

► engrossed

extremely interested in something such as a book or your work, so that you do not notice anything that is happening around you: · As she worked, she became so engrossed that she lost all sense of time.engrossed in: · Jane was sitting in bed, engrossed in a novel.· They appeared to be engrossed in their conversation and I didn't want to disturb them.

► obsessed

to be too interested in something, so that you cannot stop thinking about it or spending your time on it: · He spends all his time fiddling about with cars - he's completely obsessed.obsessed by/with: · As an artist, he was obsessed with sex and death.· People seem to be obsessed by health issues these days.become obsessed: · She became obsessed with the idea of making money.

► enthralled

very interested and excited by a story or by something that you see or hear, so that you give all your attention to it: · From the opening line of the play, the audience was completely enthralled.listen/watch etc enthralled: · We listened enthralled as she told us the story of her life.enthralled by: · I was completely enthralled by the world of the theatre, and knew that I wanted to act.

► mesmerized

also mesmerised British unable to stop looking at something or listening to someone because they completely keep your attention: · She stood there mesmerized as he picked up the gun and turned it slowly towards her.mesmerized by: · It was as if the audience was completely mesmerized by the small figure on the stage.

► spellbound

so interested by something, especially something strange or wonderful, that you are unable to move or think of anything else: listen/watch/wait etc spellbound: · Millions of Japanese listened spellbound as they heard the Emperor speak in public for the first time.spellbound by: · On clear nights we were spellbound by the strange flickering of the Northern lights in the sky.held somebody spellbound: · The Firebird is a magical ballet that still holds audiences spellbound.

► be all ears

spoken to be extremely interested in what someone is telling you, and listen very carefully to it: · Tell me exactly what happened. I'm all ears.· Everyone was all ears as soon as I mentioned a cash prize.

to have an obsession► have an obsession with/for

· My father always said I had an unhealthy obsession for spotty pop bands.· Our French teacher had a neurotic obsession with correct punctuation.

► obsessed

someone who is obsessed , has an obsession about someone or something: · Madonna was being stalked by an obsessed fan.obsessed by/with/about: · She was obsessed by Giles· He became obsessed in his old age with what to do with his immense wealth.· People are generally less obsessed about getting a tan than they used to be.

► obsessive

having an unreasonably strong and continuous interest in someone or something, so that you cannot stop thinking about them and your behaviour is seriously affected: · She's got this obsessive fear of losing control, so she never shows her emotions.· Deep anxiety can cause obsessive behaviour.obsessive about: · I try to look after my body as best I can, but I'm not obsessive about it.

► can't get somebody/something out of your mind

to be unable to stop thinking about someone or something, even when you do not want to think about them: · Since the divorce, he hadn't been able to get Bonniet out of his mind.· She knew the story wasn't true, but she couldn't get it out of her mind.

► have a thing about

informal to have an unreasonably strong interest in, liking for, or fear of something: · Joanne's got a thing about her hair. She's always changing the style.· The Captain had a thing about neat handwriting; in fact he couldn't bear to look at anything that wasn't beautifully written.

► obsess

if something obsesses someone, or they obsess about it, they think about it all the time and cannot think about anything else: · The idea that she was being punished began to obsess her.obsess about: · Some women obsess about their thighs and stomachs.

► have a one-track mind

to be continuously thinking about one subject so that you often talk about it when there is no reason to: · Boys of that age have a one track mind. All they think about is sex.

► have an unhealthy interest in

to have a strong and unnatural interest in something, so that you think about it a lot: · As a child, Quinlan had an unhealthy interest in death.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► about

· The longer you provide wifely comforts while he obsesses about this woman, the worse it's going to be.· Fashion models are the belles of the pop cultural ball: They are fawned over, obsessed about, prayed to.· They obsess about it, the black art of stealing elections.

► so

· Yet no country is so obsessed by race.· And although alcohol is forbidden, rarely has there been a culture so obsessed with drinking.· Nor are women so fixated by visual cues, so obsessed with physical rivalry.· But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.· The last nagging question is would we be so obsessed with the Simpson case if Nicole were black?· The money with which she was so obsessed was the money he had made from his play ten years before.· Emperor Charlemagne was so obsessed with her beauty, he continually harassed her.

NOUN► idea

· Alfred was intensely ambitious, obsessed with the idea of becoming rich, and channeled all his energy into his career.· By its very nature, working for a leader is working for a person obsessed with an idea or agenda.

► man

· Quaid plays Frank as an obsessed man, haggard with the burden of his job and with personal worries.

► weight

· We are cruel to ourselves and cripple ourselves by constantly obsessing about our weight.· Black and Latina women tend to be much less obsessed about their weight than white women.· But if beauty on a grand scale chooses to live fully, rather than obsess about weight, whose problem is it?· We are not obsessed with our weight.

VERB► become

· People who fell into these categories were similarly treated by a society that had become obsessed by power and success.· He soon became obsessed with being part of the pop world, any way he could.· It is told from the point of view of four boys who become obsessed with five beautiful sisters.· Arax, then 15, became obsessed with the murder, which was never solved.· The media have become obsessed with questions of what ministers knew and when they knew it.· When the bones of Sheriff Wade are discovered, Sam becomes obsessed with learning if his father was the killer.· In the remaining three weeks before departure I became obsessed about the training required to handle a week with the Springboks.· Three slowly becomes obsessed with cooking, cleaning, nice sweaters and the little specks of food stuck between teeth.

► seem

· He seems obsessed by the sheer potency of poetry.· It was the side that seemed unnecessarily obsessed with the dark, seedy side of life.· But today, some pentecostal preachers seem so obsessed with the techniques of rapture that they have forgotten the original message.· We seem obsessed as a nation with school failure, with horror stories, with ridicule.· It is a subject that seems to obsess him.