Preoccupy
[ pri'ɑkjə'pai ]
其它 Other
vt. 占据（某人）思想，使对…全神贯注，使专心于;
📝 例句
But at the moment he had other things to preoccupy him.
不过当时有另外的事情分了他的心.
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
preoccupy
v
(pt, pp -pied) [Tn]
engage (sb or his mind, thoughts, etc) so that he cannot think of other things; obsess 占据（某人）思想; 使（某人）心无二用; 迷住
Something seems to be preoccupying her at the moment. 她此刻若有所思.
Health worries preoccupied him for the whole holiday. 整个假期里他一直为健康状况而担忧.
🔁 扩展释义
*[pri:'ɒkjupai]vt. 抢先占领, 使全神贯注
📖 同为「博士」词汇
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The settlers built railways across the plains and began to hunt even more bison.
殖民者在平原上修起了铁路，于是开始猎取更多的野牛。
For one thing, when you earn money, you will not have to keep on asking your parents for money.
首先，当自己挣了钱，你就用不着老向父母要钱了。
From this we get the expression to make a beeline for someone or something, which means to go quickly along a straight direct course for someone or something.
从这里我们得到一条短语"to make a beeline for someone or something，意思是迅速地沿着一条直线向某人或某物走去。