obsession
obsession — 名詞
1. a feeling that grips your mind so strongly that you cannot stop thinking about a
癡迷；執念
腦中無法停止想著某人或某事的強烈念頭
a feeling that grips your mind so strongly that you cannot stop thinking about a person, activity, or idea, even when you want to.
Mei's obsession with Korean dramas keeps her awake until three every morning.
美對韓劇的癡迷讓她每晚都熬到凌晨三點才睡。
obsession with + noun showing the focus of the fixation
The detective's obsession with the cold case slowly destroyed his marriage.
那位偵探對舊案的執念慢慢毀掉了他的婚姻。
obsession with + noun describing an absorbing topic
After the breakup, checking Liam's social media became an unhealthy obsession.
分手後，緊盯利亞姆的社群動態變成一種不健康的癡迷。
Many readers feel the writer has a strange obsession about death and ghosts.
許多讀者覺得這位作家對死亡和鬼魂有種奇怪的執念。
Doctors warned Aunt Pei that her obsession with cleanliness was making her ill.
醫生警告佩阿姨，她對清潔的癡迷已經讓她生病了。
- fixation
near-synonym, slightly more clinical and often shorter-lived
- preoccupation
milder; the thoughts dominate but feel less compulsive
- mania
stronger and more enthusiastic, often used about a craze shared by many people
- compulsion
stresses the inability to stop a behaviour, not just thoughts
- indifference
complete lack of interest, the opposite emotional state
- detachment
calm distance from the topic, free of emotional grip
文法句型
obsession with + noun
obsession about + noun
an obsession of [possessive]
用法筆記
Often carries a negative or worried tone, suggesting the feeling is excessive or harmful. Frequently followed by 'with', less often by 'about'. The possessive subject usually names the person whose mind is gripped.