pining and brooding about ❍ 总之，她触在情绪的网里了。虽然触在情绪的网里，却不致于抛弃了一切，专向一方面去～； …… (叶圣陶《倪焕之》 175) In short,she was caught in the toils of love.—Though that did not mean that she was so deeply enmeshed that she was going to abandon everything else so that she could devote all her energies to pining and brooding about this one subject alone. …