| 单词 | there was busy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthere was busy 1. Activity, occupation, business; the state of being actively employed; an instance of this. Also in there was busy, busy was had: there was bustle or stir. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] busyingeOE busyOE busyship?c1225 busyhead1340 occupation?1387 occupyinga1400 businessc1405 vacationc1450 employing1459 employment1542 entertainment1551 activity1570 trade1591 negotiation1628 engagement1661 employ1675 busyness1809 occupancy1826 carry-on1917 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > of a thing busyOE OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxv. 479 Þonne hi..mid eorðlicum teolungum ungefohlice hi gebysgiað..þonne ne magon hi for þære bysga smeagan ymbe þæs hælendes menniscnysse. OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) l. 79 Þa gewunelican wæge hyra þeowdomes ne for weorces bysegum, ne for færeldes hi nateshwon forgymelesian. OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) liii. 85 Þonne hy læssan bysega [a1225 Winteney bisega; L. occupationem] habbað, faran to swylcan weorce and hyrsumnesse. c1400 (?c1380) Patience 157 Þer watz busy, ouer-borde bale to kest..Her kysttes & her coferes..& al to lyȝten þat lome. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 31 (MED) Aftir a Ioconde feiste, bisy in this place was hadde of recouerynge men yn to helthe. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3630 (MED) The bolde kynge es in a barge and abowtte rowes, All bare-heuvede for besye. c1450 (a1375) Octavian (Calig.) (1979) l. 340 (MED) Noþer of hem myȝt fram oþer ascape For besy of fyȝt. < as lemmas |
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