self-absorption：自我沉溺；自我中心。指一个人过度关注自己的感受、需求或形象，以至于忽视他人或外界（常带批评意味）。也可较中性地指“沉浸在自己的思绪中”。
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His self-absorption made him forget to ask how she was doing.
他的自我中心让他忘了问她最近过得怎么样。
In the novel, her self-absorption gradually isolates her from friends, until a crisis forces her to notice the lives she has been ignoring.
在小说里，她的自我沉溺逐渐让她与朋友疏远，直到一场危机迫使她看见那些一直被她忽略的他人生活。
由 self-（“自我”）+ absorption（“吸收、沉浸”）构成。absorption 源自拉丁语 absorbere（ab- “向内/离开” + sorbere “吸吮、吞咽”），引申为“被某事完全占据/吞没”。因此 self-absorption 字面意为“被自我完全占据”。
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