bustle
verb /ˈbʌsl/
/ˈbʌsl/
[intransitive, transitive]动词形式
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/ |
- 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。
Collocations DictionaryBustle is used with these nouns as the subject:- servant
词源verb late Middle English: perhaps a variant of obsolete buskle, frequentative of busk ‘prepare’, from Old Norse. - + adv./prep. She bustled around in the kitchen.