The looney tunes-like sound effects coming from the laptop speakers would suggest that he is engrossed in a video game . On the contrary -- it is his chinesehomework .
从他电脑扬声器发出了像宾尼兔的音效使人想到他全神贯注在视频游戏里正相反的是那是他的中文家庭作业。
In one project , which has engrossed him since 1972 , he has been carving a vast " city " into the desert of nevada ( without allowing anybody to see it ) .
She soon became engrossed in old volumes of austen 's letters , and one morning spotted a sentence austen wrote just a few months before she died : " I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little , which have been bad enough , black and white and every wrong colour . "
He 'd seemed engrossed in our conversation , but now I could see , from the corner of my eye , that he was leaning away from me again , his hands gripping the edge of the table with unmistakable tension .
Most of the customers are elderly or middle-aged working men . Some sit alone , engrossed in the papers as they slurp tea and eat their breakfast ; others gossip with their friends .
Your head tilts to one side , your speech quickens and the muscles in your forehead and around your eyes contract as you become engrossed in mastering a bassoon sonata , understanding the thermodynamics of the universe , or perhaps just browsing your stamp collection .