fixation
/fɪkˈseɪʃən/noun
mass noun
1
- an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something痴迷, 依恋, 固着, 过分关注：
his fixation on the details of other people's erotic lives
他对别人性生活细节的过分关注
our fixation with diet and fitness.
我们对饮食和健康的乐此不疲。
1.1
- Psychoanalysis the arresting of part of the libido at an immature stage, causing an obsessive attachment【心理分析】（幼年时期性压抑导致不正常的）固着, 固恋：
fixation at the oral phase might result in dependence on others
口唇期的固恋可能会导致对他人的依赖
count noun such mothers may have created an oral-maternal fixation in their children.这样的母亲可能使孩子产生了对母亲口唇的依恋。
2
- the action of making something firm or stable加固; 稳定：
sand-dune fixation.
沙丘加固。
2.1
- the process by which some plants and micro-organisms combine chemically with gaseous nitrogen or carbon dioxide to form non-gaseous compounds氮（二氧化碳）固化：
his work on nitrogen fixation in plants.
他对植物体内氮固化过程的研究。
2.2
- Biology the process of preserving or stabilizing (a specimen) with a chemical substance prior to microscopy or other examination【生】（采用显微术等检测方法前用化学物质对标本所做的）固定：
biopsy specimens were placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin.
活检标本先放进了暗盒, 然后再用福尔马林固定。
3
- technical the action of concentrating the eyes directly on something〈技〉直视, 注视：
the dissociation between fixation and recall
直观与回忆的分裂
count noun experimenters recorded the driver's visual fixations.试验人员记录了司机的目光驻点。
词源
late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form)： from medieval Latin fixatio（n-）， from fixare （see FIX）.