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单词 to be busy to do
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to be busy to do
7. Occupied to the full, or to the limit of one's powers. to be busy enough: to be hard put (to do something). to be busy to do (a thing): to be preoccupied or fully occupied with it alone. Cf. albusy adv. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > engage in or busy oneself about > be fully occupied with
to be busy to doa1387
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 453 (MED) Þe Est ȝate..was so hevy of sound bras þat twenty men were besy i-now for to tende it.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1584 Swich stryf..Bitwixe Venus..And Mars..That Iuppiter was bisy it to stente.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10388 Þe kyng..harmyt hym sore, Þat bisi was þe buerne to bide in his sadill.
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