| 词汇 | bustle |
| 释义 | bustle verb[ I+ adv/prep ] uk /ˈbʌs.əl/ us /ˈbʌs.əl/ to do things in a hurried and busy way: 匆忙做;忙碌 Thora bustled around the house, getting everything ready.托拉在公寓里忙着把所有东西都准备好。 Hurrying and doing things quickly accelerate acceleration against the clockidiom against time/the clockidiom alacrity dash grab-and-go grease hacky haste hasten prompt promptness quickie rattle something off rattle through something rush into something snap stroke tear bustle noun uk /ˈbʌs.əl/ us /ˈbʌs.əl/ bustlenoun (ACTIVITY)[ U ] busy activity: 热闹的活动 I sat in a café, watching the (hustle and) bustle of the street outside.我坐在咖啡馆里，望着街上忙碌的景象。 activity activityThere were several police vans and a lot of activity in the area. hubbubI couldn't find her with all the hubbub going on. bustleI miss the bustle of the big city. hustle and bustleShe got used to the hustle and bustle of daily life. flurry of activityWhat was the reason behind this sudden flurry of activity? burst of activityIt's usually quiet in the shop, but occasionally we have a sudden burst of activity. Busy and active abustle be (as) busy as a beeidiom be all goidiom be at workidiom be back in harnessidiom boot frenetic frenetically gangbusters girlie swot hard-working peak plate rev run around run round run round in circlesidiom run round like a headless chickenidiom rush/run someone off their feetidiom spread bustlenoun (DRESS)[ C ] a frame worn under a dress or skirt by women in the late 19th century to make the skirt stick out（19世纪末女子的）裙撑 Heritage Images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images /GettyImages Renaissance: 1501 to 1899 ancien régime auto-da-fé buccaneer Carolean Caroline enlightenment Industrial Revolution Jacobean Marian Pre-Raphaelite privateer reformation regency renaissance the First Fleet the Wild West Tory Victorian Victoriana Whig bustle | American Dictionarybustle verb[ I ] us/ˈbʌs·əl/ to do things in a hurried and busy way: Thomas bustled around the apartment, getting everything ready. bustle noun[ U ] us/ˈbʌs·əl/ busy activity: the bustle of the downtown business district Examples of bustlebustle The urban areas were "service cities" rather than bustling centers of trade manufactures. Two towering art deco ocean-liners float in a harbour bustling with commerce; in the foreground are palm fronds. Under this cover of tradition and past glory, however, the executive has bustled through informally to seize almost total power. The bustling life of the office will thus be confronted with patterns of vegetation that grow and decay with stoic slowness, like living still lifes, three-dimensional, ever-changing pictures. The neighbourhood is lively, with a bustling market, a variety of small stores, a football field, and numerous bars, offering public spaces for people to stroll, socialise, and conduct business. The whole square was bustling with expectation. Also, the configuration of dwellings means that quiet living spaces are often above ground floor, where noise and bustle is greatest. The absence of children running around and other bustle lent the development an air of bareness. Cars 'parked five deep' emphasises numbers, and suggests the activity and bustle of many people arriving after their journeys to the party. We have come to expect an architectural photograph to be still and orderly, not the bustle of life arrested. Today, with theory paralyzed and disparaged by the all-governing bustle, its mere existence, however impotent, bears witness against the bustle. The economic bustle provided a veneer of economic prosperity that hid the continuing depredations of military attempts to eradicate clandestine resistance. The bustle enhances the impression of good business. Private and quiet, beautiful but restrained, separate from the bustle of modern life, the garden purifies those who come into contact with it. Perhaps his mind was not quite with us as he bustled along in his speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of bustle These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。