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单词 bustle
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bus·tle

verb
/ˈbʌsl/
/ˈbʌsl/
[intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bustle
/ˈbʌsl/
/ˈbʌsl/
he / she / it bustles
/ˈbʌslz/
/ˈbʌslz/
past simple bustled
/ˈbʌsld/
/ˈbʌsld/
past participle bustled
/ˈbʌsld/
/ˈbʌsld/
-ing form bustling
/ˈbʌslɪŋ/
/ˈbʌslɪŋ/
  1. to move around in a busy way or to hurry somebody in a particular direction四下忙碌;催促(某人向某方向)
    • + adv./prep. She bustled around in the kitchen.她在厨房里忙得团团转。
    • bustle somebody + adv./prep. The nurse bustled us out of the room.护士催促我们离开房间。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryBustle is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • servant
    Word Originverb late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse.

bus·tle

noun
/ˈbʌsl/
/ˈbʌsl/
  1. [uncountable] busy and noisy activity忙乱嘈杂;喧闹
    • the hustle and bustle of city life都市生活的喧闹繁忙
    • For once the river was quiet, without its usual bustle of barges and river traffic.河里第一次安静下来,没有往常熙熙攘攘的驳船和河流交通。
  2. [countable] a frame that was worn under a skirt by women in the past in order to hold the skirt out at the back(旧时女子用的)裙撑
  3. Word Originnoun sense 1 late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse. noun sense 2 late 18th cent.: of unknown origin.
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