| 单词 | obsessed |
| 释义 | obsessed (once / 2626 pages) adj If you visit your grandmother and discover that she has collected so many clown dolls and clown paintings that her house is full of them, you may worry that she's become obsessed with clowns. An obsession with something is an unhealthy, extreme interest in it. When someone is obsessed, they've lost control of their feelings about the object of their obsession. The adjective obsessed is often used to simply mean "very interested," but when someone is truly obsessed, their interest has become compulsive, and they've begun to lose control over it. The Latin root is obsessus, or "besieged," and when you're obsessed, your mind has been besieged by uncontrollable thoughts of something. WORD FAMILYobsess: obsessed, obsesses, obsessing, obsession, obsessive+/obsession: obsessional, obsessions/obsessional: obsessionally/obsessive: obsessively, obsessiveness, obsessives, obsessivity USAGE EXAMPLESDoctors and hospitals here are obsessed with metrics, not least because under the health law, they may be rewarded or penalized based on their performance. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) I use the grapefruit shower gel, and I’m obsessed with the brown sugar scrub. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “Mike is obsessed by exploring the connection between the dramatic and the real,” the director Lance Hammer, a neighbor of Mills’s, said. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something was absolutely obsessed with the girl Syn haunted, preoccupied, taken up concerned feeling or showing worry or solicitude 2adj influenced or controlled by a powerful force such as a strong emotion Syn possessed controlled restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds |
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