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单词 all-absorbing
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Definition of all-absorbing in English:

all-absorbing

adjective
  • Taking up all one's attention.

    an all-absorbing interest in one subject
    an all-absorbing cause
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The all-absorbing urge for knowledge is one of the thinking person's deepest needs.
    • In fact, Mark's passion has become so all-absorbing, he has now built a business around it.
    • Most boys early develop an all-absorbing ambition.
    • Once you're on the court doing something, it's all-absorbing, you don't notice anything.
    • He closed by emphasizing it as the one, single, all-absorbing, daily aim to glorify God in a complete surrender to His will and service.
    • The region, and its turbulent history, became an all-absorbing interest for Simpson.
    • I was almost close enough to jump the security fence, and the atmosphere became all-absorbing.
    • His research and the writing up of cases was all-absorbing but he did find some relaxation in the company of Elizabeth Follett, sister of Sir William Webb Follett.
    • Often no anatomical or pathological cause can be found, and the condition becomes all-absorbing and is characterized by a state of alienation from ordinary everyday life.
    • At this period, he was but a youth; and it is not to be supposed, that he engaged in the business of instruction, and prosecuted it with that all-absorbing interest and determination of purpose, which distinguished his ministerial career.
    • My work is all-absorbing.
    • It was a working partnership and it was all-absorbing.
    • He feared that the all-absorbing game of profit-making had a tendency to crowd out public and patriotic activity.
    • Drug use is not necessarily an all-absorbing activity among illicit drug users.
    • After discussing the then all-absorbing Reform question, they proposed to call at the Three Tuns, in the Borough, near to which tavern they had now arrived, to have some gin-and-water.
    • Suddenly, at the beginning of 1945, Artaud began to draw in such an all-absorbing way that it appeared to Ferdière that a crucial shift in his behavior had taken place.
    • The Devil and Miss Prym, another all-absorbing classic, is nonetheless an example of work that relies a little too heavily on that grim tug at the heartstrings.
    • It is all-absorbing and takes up a vast amount of their lives.
    • Up to now my job as a newspaper reporter had been the all-absorbing passion of my life.
    • In Simla the burning questions are polo finals, racing and the all-absorbing tennis tournaments.
    Synonyms
    thorough, in-depth, concentrated, rigorous, exhaustive, all-out, concerted, thoroughgoing
 
 
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