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词根:possess
adj.possessive 占有的;所有的;所有格的;占有欲强的
n.possession 拥有;财产;领地;自制;着迷
possessive 所有格
possessor 持有人;所有人
vt.possess 控制;使掌握;持有;迷住
adjective
of, relating to, or constituting a word, a word group, or a grammatical case that denotes ownership or a relation analogous to ownership
manifesting possession or the desire to own or dominate
noun
a possessive word or word group
the possessive case
a word in the possessive case
The first known use of possessive was in the 15th century
postdateverb
to assign a date to that is later than the actual or current date
postdate a check
to follow in time
postcardnoun
a card on which a message may be sent by mail without an envelope
postal card sense 1
postaladjective
of or relating to mail or to the post office
postagenoun
the charge fixed by law for carrying an article by mail
possumnoun
opossum
possiblyadverb
by possible means : by any possibility
that cannot possibly be true
perhaps
may possibly recover
possibilitynoun
the state or fact of being possible
something possible
possessverb
to have and hold as property : own
to have as a characteristic, knowledge, or skill
possesses a keen wit
to enter into and control firmly : dominate whatever possessed you to do that
possessed by a demon
possessive1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or being a grammatical case that shows ownership or a similar relation
showing the desire to possess or control
a possessive attitude
possessive2 of 2noun
the possessive case
a noun or pronoun in the possessive case
possessive1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or being a grammatical case that shows ownership or a similar relation
showing the desire to possess or control
a possessive attitude
possessive2 of 2noun
the possessive case
a noun or pronoun in the possessive case
1 Again Michael felt that shortness of breath, that flooding through his body of something that was not so much desire as an insane possessiveness.
迈克尔又感到上气不接下气了,在他全身汹涌澎湃的,与其说是渴望,不如说是如痴似醉的占有欲。
2 He makes much of Sudeikis’s brightly lit bonhomie in evoking the shift from devotion to possessiveness, from desire to violence.
3 I've ruined every relationship with my possessiveness.
我的独占欲每次都毁掉了两人关系。
4 Suspicion and fear: possessiveness and greed: resentment for ancestral wrong: all these seemed to be a part of it.
5 In contrast to the spirit of cooperation required for a successful recovery effort, Collar wrote in 1992, “ownership is a matter of jealousy, prestige and possessiveness that is fundamentally different in psychological origin.”
6 Possessiveness, then, is not love.
爱也不是感情用事。
7 Don José is a passive but possessive male who can only assert himself through violence.
8 I liked the possessiveness of it, how it weighted me down.
9 This level of control and possessiveness is alarming.
10 Farmers tend to be possessive of their precious water, explained Susanna Eden of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center.
11 Gregor was five years older, and so "the toy was nothing to him," but his possessiveness led him to burn Gregor nearly to death over it.
12 Both are notoriously stubborn and possessive, which can result in power struggles and control issues within the relationship.
13 The possessive in the title of Zack Snyder’s Justice League says it all.
14 Text messages written by Officer John Kivlin “indicate a desperation and possessiveness of the victim,” say charging papers, which detail a seven-month affair between the veteran cop and an Issaquah woman.
15 Friendships between girls, particularly, can involve a possessiveness and – as well as a deep, complicit intimacy – a shared language, often of subtle rebellion, and a competitiveness that can manifest itself in cruelty.
16 The judge said Jex's offending was "in fact at least one offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm" and was "seriously aggravated by manual strangulation in the context of sexual jealousy or possessiveness".
17 He touches her shoulder with a possessiveness in his eyes that I don’t like.
18 Diana Quick as Eva captures both the possessiveness and the verbal precision of the mittel-Europa refugee, at one point offering Lili's suitor the prospect of "an intricately unhappy life lived out in compensatory splendour".
19 Because part of love is possessiveness, and that is complicated when one becomes two.
20 The kind of possessiveness this adoptive parent displays is all too common.