busy

verb

1. keep busy with

e.g. She busies herself with her butterfly collection

Synonym: occupy

adj

1. crowded with or characterized by much activity

e.g. a very busy week
a busy life
a busy street
a busy seaport

2. actively or fully engaged or occupied

e.g. busy with her work
a busy man
too busy to eat lunch

3. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

e.g. an interfering old woman
bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
busy about other people's business

Synonym: interferingmeddlesomemeddlingofficiousbusybodied

4. (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)

e.g. her line is busy
receptionists' telephones are always engaged
the lavatory is in use
kept getting a busy signal

Synonym: engagedin use(p)

5. overcrowded or cluttered with detail

e.g. a busy painting
a fussy design

Synonym: fussy

1. 忙的；忙碌的
When you are busy, you are working hard or concentrating on a task, so that you are not free to do anything else.

e.g. What is it? I'm busy...
什么事？我忙着呢。
e.g. They are busy preparing for a hectic day's activity on Saturday...
他们正忙着准备周六一整天都安排满了的活动。

2. 繁忙的；忙碌的
A busy time is a period of time during which you have a lot of things to do.

busy的近义词

e.g. It'll have to wait. This is our busiest time ...
这事得往后放。这是我们最忙碌的时候。
e.g. Even with her busy schedule she finds time to watch TV...
即使日程安排很满，她也要抽出时间看电视。

3. 全神贯注的；心无旁骛的；埋头于…的
If you say that someone is busy thinking or worrying about something, you mean that it is taking all their attention, often to such an extent that they are unable to think about anything else.

e.g. Companies are so busy analysing the financial implications that they overlook the effect on workers ...
公司忙于分析此事对财务可能产生的影响，而忽视了其对工人的影响。
e.g. Most people are too busy with their own troubles to give much help.
大多数人都忙于自己的烦心事，而无暇提供太多的帮助。

4. 使（自己）忙于
If you busy yourself with something, you occupy yourself by dealing with it.

e.g. He busied himself with the camera...
他忙着摆弄那个相机。
e.g. She busied herself getting towels ready...
她忙着把毛巾准备好。

5. 热闹的；忙碌的；熙熙攘攘的
A busy place is full of people who are doing things or moving about.

busy的解释

e.g. The Strand is one of London's busiest and most affluent streets...
斯特兰德街是伦敦最繁华、最富足的街道之一。
e.g. The ward was busy and Amy hardly had time to talk.
病房里非常忙碌，埃米几乎没有时间说话。

6. 占线的
When a telephone line is busy, you cannot make your call because the line is already being used by someone else.

e.g. I tried to reach him, but the line was busy.
我试图和他联系，但他的电话占线。

7. see also: busily

1. 忙碌：忙碌(BUSY)每年的的这个时候总有干不完的事情,时间总是掌握在其他人的手中!以为只有不断的压榨睡眠时间,也许还能扳回点什么,可是失去的却比我想像中的多很多!得不偿失的事情,偶而做做就行了,把效率提高,提倡墨菲定律,二八法则,

2. busy：i busy; 打印机忙

3. busy的近义词

3. busy：bsy; 忙〖网语〗