In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self-interest, that gives life dignity.

在一个充斥着对消费主义和个人蝇头小利的追求的世界里，这种道德感赋予生命以尊严。

" You are preoccupied, my dear, " she said mournfully to Harry.

“你有心事，我亲爱的，”她悲戚戚地对哈利说。

That's great, but I seem to remember you were preoccupied with all the lofty mathematics.

太好了，但我记得你似乎对那些高深的数学有些担忧。

We're consistently absorbed in our devices, preoccupied with games, social media, and other virtual obligations.

我们总在自己的设备中，专注于游戏、社交媒体和其他虚拟义务。

Our modern world is preoccupied with technological advancements.

我们的现代世界全神贯注于技术进步。

While the child was preoccupied with the stranger the parent would leave.

当孩子全神贯注于陌生人时，父母会离开。

Your phone can make you feel connected, less alone and it preoccupies your racing mind.

你的手机以让你感觉与外界联系，不那么独，它占据了你不断前进的思维。

Writing and literature classes can be annoyingly preoccupied by (and pretentious about) theme, approaching it as the most sacred of sacred cows, but (don't be shocked) it's really no big deal.

写作和文学课经常会长篇大套，夸夸其谈地讨论主题，叫人不胜其烦，仿佛这神牛中的圣牛，但（稳住了）这没什么大不了的。

" This is a particularly striking example of a case where there might be a fitness benefit to not breeding yourself — you can better help your grandkids if you're not preoccupied with a baby of your own, " he wrote.

" 这个例子极其明显地体现出，自己不生育也有利于群体健康的——如果无需忙于照顾自己的孩子，你就以更好地帮助你的孙辈了。"

And this seems quite apparent because exercise can provide a stress-free environment away from your usual stresses and it keeps your body busy and preoccupied with non-stressful things.

这似乎很明显，因为锻炼以让你远离压力，让身体动起来，专注于无压力的事情。

Uncle Peter, preoccupied with the conversation behind him, had driven past the Merriwether carriage block and he backed up the horse. Mrs. Merriwether alighted, her bonnet ribbons shaking like sails in a storm.

梅里韦瑟太太下了车，她的帽带像风暴中的船帆飘得高高的。

These suggest that performance suffers when the mind is preoccupied with worries, doubts, or fears, instead of focusing its attention on performing the task at hand.

该理论认为当担忧、疑惑和恐惧 占据了人们的头脑，让人们无法集中注意力在手头的任务，其表现就会受到影响。

After all, since meeting Macarthur and beginning to write about those crimes, I myself had been preoccupied with a similar problem: how does one turn a life, or a death, into a story?

毕竟，自从遇见麦克阿瑟并开始写关于那些犯罪的事情后，我自己一直在思考一个类似的问题：如何将生命或死亡转化为一个故事呢？

What the divergence in animal spirits does say is that investors in the stockmarket-mistakenly or not-have left behind concerns that preoccupied them just a couple of months ago.

两种动物情绪的差异确实表明，股市的投资者--无论出于正确还错误的判断--已经把仅仅几个月前还让他们忧心忡忡的问题抛在了脑后。

The nation, moreover, was about to become fully preoccupied with space travel and the quest to send a man to the Moon, which made deep sea investigations seem unimportant and rather old-fashioned.

而且，当时这个国家就要全力以赴地搞空间旅行，努力把人送上月球。因此，深海调查似乎变得不大重要，已经过时。

People high in anxiety are less secure in themselves and tend to see others as the solution, so they tend to be preoccupied with seeking intimacy and support from their partners.

高度焦虑的人对自己的安全感较低，倾向于将他人视为解决问题的方法，因此他们往往专注于寻求伴侣的亲密和支持。

I think about how easy it was to be fully immersed in the moment as a child, and how often my mind wanders and is preoccupied as an adult.

我在想，作为一个孩子，完全在那一刻多么容易，而作为一个成年人，我又多么经常的心不在焉。

His pockets are bulging, full of his little wares; and he covers them up with a long black cloak, and always appears thoughtful and preoccupied with business, like a merchant.

卡洛斐口袋里满装着物品，外面罩了长的黑外套。他平时总商人似的在心里打算着什么。

The Early Twentieth Century During the second half of the 19th century, the United States was preoccupied with a civil war and a post civil war industrial revolution.

二十世纪早期在19世纪下半叶，美国忙于内战和战后的工业革命。

Inflation is back. Despite a weak recovery in much of the world, the threat of rising prices preoccupies policymakers and the public.

通胀回来了。尽管世界上大部分地区有略微的恢复，但价格上涨的威胁仍萦绕在政策制定者和公众的心头。