| 释义 |
ˈbusywork orig. and chiefly U.S.
Also busy-work, busy work.
[f. busy a. + work n.]
Work performed simply to keep (oneself) occupied; repetitive or routine activity.
1910Primary Educ. Feb. 82/1 (heading) Practical busy work. 1930Grade Teacher Sept. 30/1 The old term ‘busy work,’ now an expression in bad repute, was a quite honest label of what was too often seat work of this character. 1944L. Mumford Condition of Man ix. 307 The utilitarians took too much pride in their limitations, and buried too many ultimate problems in the mere routine of busy work. 1960C. Geertz Relig. Java vi. 72 The detailed busy-work of the funeral, the politely formal social intercourse with the neighbors pressing in from all sides..are supposed to carry one through the grief process evenly and without severe emotional disturbance. 1963B. Friedan Feminine Mystique x. 245 The time-filling busywork of suburban house and community. 1974H. L. Foster Ribbin' vi. 243 Their students are controlled and supposedly educated with worksheets, notes for copying, and other fruitless forms of ‘busy-work’. |