| 单词 | busy |
| 释义 | busy I. 1. < keeping the American front busy while Howe and his other divisions were moving — F.V.W.Mason > 2. < a busy seaport > < the snow and ice melted … and Mount Vernon was soon busy with its old hospitality — H.E.Scudder > 3. < a busy, fussy sort of man much concerned with regulating everything — A.M.Young > 4. of a telephone line 5. < a busy floral wallpaper > < small patterns can look annoyingly busy in a large room > Synonyms: < always busy, making it a point never to suspend for one moment his occupation — John Burroughs > < the merchants of Charleston and Portsmouth, Norfolk and Boston with their busy offices full of bustling clerks — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > The word may connote purposive activity < this man of action wanted to get busy on the proposition without loss of time — Upton Sinclair > industrious may suggest habitual or continual earnest enterprise < a vigorous and industrious girl, who, single-handed, kept the farm in a sort of order — Dorothy Sayers > diligent may stress care, constancy, attentiveness, and thoroughness < when we came to start, the Yankee's boots were missing, and after a diligent search were not to be found — Herman Melville > < the young investigator becomes a diligent student of literature and laboriously examines the relevant passages — Havelock Ellis > assiduous suggests constant, unremitting effort < he inherited the strict and severe piety of his father; he was assiduous in his attendance on religious services whether by night or day — J.R.Green > < even the most assiduous critic can scarcely hope to keep abreast of the growing flood of translated books — Times Literary Supplement > sedulous connotes careful painstaking attentiveness < too prolonged and heated and discursive to interest any but the most sedulous reader — H.G.Wells > < this man who, after weeks of sedulous and disheartening analysis, eventually ferreted out the source — W.H.Wright > II. transitive verb < the faithful servant busied himself about the room — Winston Churchill > : engage, occupy < I have need to busy my heart with quietude — Rupert Brooke > intransitive verb < I busied about and I made him two good-sized sandwiches — Edwin Corle > |
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