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单词 to rush around
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to rush around
to rush around
1. intransitive. To go about hurriedly; to hurry from one place or task to another.to rush around in circles: see circle n. 1c.
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1851 Amer. Mag. Nov. 59/2 He rushed around for a few moments, and getting very red in the face, started off in a brisk run after the cab.
1897 ‘M. Twain’ More Tramps Abroad lxvi. 434 People were rushing around seeking friends and rescuing the wounded.
1923 H. Crane Let. 9 May (1965) 134 Of course I have been rushing around to a lot of other agencies.
1970 T. Murphy Whistle in Dark i. 10 You're rushing around like mad.
1998 A. Taylor Suffocating Night xxxv. 241 Norah Coalway was rushing around seeing to everybody's needs except her own.
2. transitive (in passive). To be very busy.
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1898 G. K. Armes Let. 7 Aug. in G. A. Armes Ups & Downs of Army Officer (1900) xxxvi. 730 We have been rushed around so lively, and my supply of writing paper was so short.., that it has been impossible for me to write to you before.
1923 H. Crane Let. 6 Feb. (1965) 118 I have been so rushed around with too much society that I have not yet got at the review for your study.
2006 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 10 Aug. 1 Nowadays everybody's so rushed around you don't have time to sit back and enjoy.
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