busy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 bĭz'i

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A police officer. UK,derogatory,slang
    — I remember playing on a building site once and coming across a five-pound note. I could hardly believe it when I spotted it poking out of the rubble. Excitedly, I ran straight home and gave it to my mum. I was hero of the hour until I got into trouble with the busies – the police – soon afterwards for pinching a bottle of milk from a float.
动词 v.
  1. To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. reflexive,transitive,usually
    — On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
形容词 adj.
  1. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
    — Be careful crossing that busy street.
  2. Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
    — The director cannot see you now: he's busy.
  3. Having much work to do; having much to get done.
    — Near-synonym: swamped
  4. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
    — Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
  5. Officious; meddling.
    — I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.

词形变化

busier comparative busiest superlative busie alternative,obsolete busies plural busie alternative,obsolete busies present,singular,third-person busying participle,present busied participle,past busied past

词汇关系

近义词
swamped
衍生词
busihead busily business busy as a beaver busy as a bee busy as a dyke in a hardware store busy as a nailer busy as a one-armed paperhanger busy as a one-armed paper hanger busy beaver busy beaver function busy bee busy board busybody busy body busy book busy box busyish busy little beaver busy loop busyness busy-ness busy signal busy wait busy work busy-work embusy ever-busy fast busy signal get busy I'm busy keep someone busy nonbusy semibusy superbusy the line is busy underbusy Wheal Busy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bisy, busie, from Old English bisiġ (“busy, occupied, diligent”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisīg (“diligent; zealous; busy”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian biesich (“active, diligent, hard-working, industrious”), Dutch bezig (“busy”), Low German besig (“busy”). The spelling with ⟨u⟩ represents the pronunciation of the West Midland and Southern dialects while the Modern English pronunciation with /ɪ/ is from the dialects of the East Midlands.
词源 2
From Middle English bisien, from Old English bisgian (“to occupy, employ, trouble, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisīgōn. Cognate with Old Frisian bisgia (“to use”).
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