busk
verb /bʌsk/
/bʌsk/
[intransitive]动词形式
| present simple I / you / we / they busk | /bʌsk/ /bʌsk/ |
| he / she / it busks | /bʌsks/ /bʌsks/ |
| past simple busked | /bʌskt/ /bʌskt/ |
| past participle busked | /bʌskt/ /bʌskt/ |
| -ing form busking | /ˈbʌskɪŋ/ /ˈbʌskɪŋ/ |
- to perform music in a public place and ask for money from people passing by
街头卖艺 词源mid 17th cent.: from obsolete French busquer ‘seek’, from Italian buscare or Spanish buscar, of Germanic origin. Originally in nautical use in the sense ‘cruise about, tack’, the term later meant ‘go about selling things’, hence ‘go about performing’ (mid 19th cent.).
