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单词 to be in another world
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to be in another world
a. to be in another world: to be so absorbed in one's thoughts, an activity, etc., as to be insensible or inattentive to one's surroundings; to be transported, enraptured, or lost in thought.In some instances perhaps influenced by another world at sense 1b.
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1542 T. Becon Dauids Harpe ii. sig. dviiv As whan a man is so rapte into another kynd or state that he forgetteth himselfe, or semeth to be in another world, as they vse to saye.
1759 J. Wesley Jrnl. 6 Aug. (1764) 72 From that Moment, they were in another World, knowing nothing of what was done or said, by all that were round about them.
1876 Good Words 17 579 He had been sent or taken to this hall and that society to hear—the music of the spheres to Clem—he was in another world, and was exalted and engrossed.
1925 Eng. Jrnl. 14 807 I was carried quite out of myself... I quite forgot it was a play: I was in another world.
2004 Commentary Dec. 55/2 Your father, before he died, half the time he was in another world. You couldn't talk sensibly to him for five minutes in his last years.
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