Busy

(verb.) keep busy with; 'She busies herself with her butterfly collection'.

(adj.) crowded with or characterized by much activity; 'a very busy week'; 'a busy life'; 'a busy street'; 'a busy seaport' .

(adj.) actively or fully engaged or occupied; 'busy with her work'; 'a busy man'; 'too busy to eat lunch' .

(adj.) (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); 'her line is busy'; 'receptionists' telephones are always engaged'; 'the lavatory is in use'; 'kept getting a busy signal' .

(adj.) overcrowded or cluttered with detail; 'a busy painting'; 'a fussy design' .

克洛伊校对

• As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I replied that I thought he was in the right place, and told him to get busy with his talk on dots and dashes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• For myself, I was kept somewhat busy during the winter of 1847-8. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A hurry of voices succeeded, in which Mr Inspector's voice was busiest; it gradually slackened and sank; and Mr Inspector reappeared. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Stephenson himself was one of the busiest men in the kingdom. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• What have the people been about, who have been the busiest in getting money, and in getting power, this century or two? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• A few minutes later, we had stopped at a large mansion in the busiest thoroughfare. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• See him busied at the work he likes best--making marriages. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Cassy busied herself with a French book; Emmeline, overcome with the exhaustion, fell into a doze, and slept some time. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The woman walked forward among the boxes and bales of the lower deck, and, sitting down, busied herself with chirruping to her baby. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• When women are brooding over their children, or busied in a sick-room, who has not seen in their faces those sweet angelic beams of love and pity? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I saw her busied for a moment at a little stand; she poured out water, and measured drops from a phial: glass in hand, she approached me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did: or rather, to discover any result of her diligence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to be busier still this evening. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She needed the relief of solitude after a day of busy thinking, and busier repenting. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• She, equally discreet, busies herself with her needlework. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• She busies herself in works of piety. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

手打:特伦斯