核心畫面

One chair in your mind. Something has already sat down on it, and it will not get up. Everything else that wants your attention has to wait outside the door.

可以想成腦子裡只有一張椅子。有件事先一步坐了上去,而且不肯起來。後來想進來的事,就只能在門外排隊。preoccupa更多收起可以想成腦子裡只有一張椅子。有件事先一步坐了上去,而且不肯起來。後來想進來的事,就只能在門外排隊。preoccupation 有時候指這個被佔住的狀態,有時候指那個佔住位子的東西——兩個意思看的是同一個畫面,只是一個看位子,一個看坐在上面的人。

From the word’s history

Borrowed from Middle French preoccupation, from Latin praeoccupatio; by surface analysis pre- plus occupation. The older picture is taking a place before anyone else can.

來源資料把它拆成 pre-(事先)加 occupation(佔住),並指出它借自中古法文 préoccupation、拉丁文 praeoccupātiō。原本的畫面是「搶先一步把位子佔下來」,今天用在心思上,就是某件事搶先佔走了你的注意力。

Wiktionary (kaikki extract supplied in packet), source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1070456188:11198

One branch

被佔住的心思

兩個意思都站在同一張被佔住的椅子旁邊,差別只在你看的是「位子被佔住」還是「佔住位子的那件事」。

noun · C1

The state of thinking or worrying about one thing so much that you give little attention to anything else. The thing that fills your mind usually follows the word 'with'.

滿腦子想著某事