As Edna walked along the street she was thinking of Robert. She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
But as she sat there amid her guests, she felt the old ennui overtaking her; the hopelessness which so often assailed her, which came upon her like an obsession, like something extraneous, independent of volition. It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited. There came over her the acute longing which always summoned into her spiritual vision the presence of the beloved one, overpowering her at once with a sense of the unattainable.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
g., inhaling certain chemicals, is a thing hardly anybody will want to perform before the court. With regard to guilt or innocence, blushing offers no evidence whatever. There is a great troop of people who blush without any
[1] E. Claparde: L'obsession de la rougeur. de Psych. de la Suisse Romande, 1902, I, 307
[2] Henle: ber das Errten. Breslau 1882.
All this, in the light of our present knowledge, is too obvious to us to admit of discussion. But it seems to me nothing less than pathetic to see how in the teeth of the obsession as to continental extension, Darwin fought single-handed for what we now know to be the truth.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"Cocoanut-pudding," said Chloe, pathetically. "I've wanted some--oh, so badly, for two days. It's got beyond a wish; it's an obsession.英文原著 · 《Options》
He remembered how often he had been close to death; he knew that during the greater part of the next two years he should see the glimmer of the scythe oftener yet. For a moment it seemed to him that he felt the dark waters rise in his soul, heard the jeers of the gods at the vanity of mortal will. But the blood ran strong and warm in his veins. He shook off the obsession, and smiled a little cynically, even as he kissed her.英文原著 · 《Rezanov》
Um, maybe I overreacted to your whole obsession with work thing, you know?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But that obsession nearly had me out on the street.美剧 · 《Billions》
I mean, obviously, I'm a fan of her early work which both satirized and celebrated youth culture's obsession with sex, but I do wonder as a third-wave feminist if it's even possible for women to reclaim their sexuality in this deeply entrenched patriarchal society, or if claiming to do so is just a美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》