If you are preoccupied, you are thinking a lot about something or someone, and so you hardly notice other things.
例句
Tom Banbury was preoccupied with the missing Shepherd child and did not want to devote time to the new murder...汤姆·班伯里一心寻找谢泼德家失踪的孩子,不想花时间处理这起新的谋杀案。She looked very preoccupied.她看起来心事重重。
英汉词典释义
adj.
全神贯注的;入神的
You look preoccupied: what are you thinking of?看你心不在焉,在想什么?I was too preoccupied to hear the bell.当时我出神地想着心事,没有听见门铃响。
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. deeply absorbed in thought;
"as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class""lost in thought""a preoccupied frown"
2. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something;
"became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle""was absolutely obsessed with the girl""got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children""he was taken up in worry for the old woman"