busy是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为a. 忙, 忙碌的; 热闹的, 繁忙的; (电话) 占线,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- She had been trotting along, so preoccupied and busy that she had not recognised them until they turned upon her.
-- The noises were sufficiently removed and shut out from the counting-house to blend into a busy hum, interspersed with periodical clinks and thumps.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- While making these maternal inquiries Mrs. March got her wet things off, her warm slippers on, and sitting down in the easy chair, drew Amy to her lap, preparing to enjoy the happiest hour of her busy day.
-- Mrs. March was very busy trying to finish a letter, which must go at once, and Hannah had the grumps, for being up late didn't suit her.
-- Hannah never forgot to make them, no matter how busy or grumpy she might be, for the walk was long and bleak.
-- The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling her-self up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.
-- Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making out his papers for the Customs 'Who's there?'
-- Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.
-- Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last things on board.
-- I was the attendant or page of Queequeg, while busy at the mat.
-- Oh, busy weaver!unseen weaver! pause! one word! whither flows the fabric?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He saw the Jew with his half-closed eyes; heard his low whistling; and recognised the sound of the spoon grating against the saucepan's sides: and yet the self-same senses were mentally engaged, at the same time, in busy action with almost everybody he had ever known.
-- The transitions in real life from well-spread boards to death-beds, and from mourning-weeds to holiday garments, are not a whit less startling; only, there, we are busy actors, instead of passive lookers-on, which makes a vast difference.
-- 'I don't know what comes over me sometimes,' said she, affecting to busy herself in arranging her dress; 'it's this damp dirty room, I think.
-- It was as light as it was likely to be, till night came on again, and the busy morning of half the London population had begun.
-- In an instant, the other two were on their legs, and all were actively engaged in busy preparation.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- After walking several miles in a leisurely manner, and too busy to know anything about it, they found at last, on examining their watches, that it was time to be at home.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- The case was thus: As I was busy in the inside, behind my tent, just at the entrance into my cave, I was terribly fright-ed with a most dreadful, surprising thing indeed; for all on a sudden I found the earth come crumbling down from the roof of my cave, and from the edge of the hill over my head, and two of the posts I had set up in the cave cracked in a frightful manner.
-- I was busy one morning upon something of this kind, when I called to Friday, and bid him to go to the sea-shore and see if he could find a tur-tle or a tortoise, a thing which we generally got once a week, for the sake of the eggs as well as the flesh.
-- But to return to Friday; he was so busy about his father that I could not find in my heart to take him off for some time; but after I thought he could leave him a little, I called him to me, and he came jumping and laughing, and pleased to the highest extreme: then I asked him if he had given his father any bread.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.
-- As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
-- "Oh!Colonel," said she, with her usual noisy cheerfulness, "I am monstrous glad to see you sorry I could not come before beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters; for it is a long while since I have been at home, and you know one has always a world of little odd things to do after one has been away for any time; and then I have had Cartwright to settle with Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today?"
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