| 词组 | obsess |
| 释义 | obsess When obsess is used with a preposition, it appears as a past participle, often as part of a passive construction. It is used with with about twice as often as with by: • ... those who ... are obsessed with stupid, male vanity —Sherwood Anderson, Poor White, 1920 • ... they had grown so obsessed with the idea that they could not willingly contemplate any action — C. S. Forester, The African Queen, 1935 • ... become obsessed with the suspicion that most of the talk they cannot hear consists in plottings — James Gould Cozzens, Guard of Honor, 1948 • ... were obsessed at this moment with the urgency of heading southeast —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall ofthe Third Reich, 1960 • ... as soon as he suspects her of infidelity, he becomes morbidly obsessed by jealousy —Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle, 1931 • ... gamblers, obsessed by their own fictions of speculation —Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again, 1940 Obsess has also been used infrequently with of or on: • ... too obsessed for our own good of the idea that our supposedly superior intelligence was all the insurance we needed —Norman Cousins, Saturday .Rev., 17 Jan. 1942 . • The crop of Negro fiction written during the last decade is obsessed on the subject of race —Charles I. Glicksberg, Western Rev., Winter 1949 |
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