英语词汇“busy idleness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

busy idleness n. occupation or employment in trivial matters, idleness disguised as busyness; a tendency to engage in this; cf. busy-idle adj. 1.

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1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. (new ed.) iii. 44 Some of our pens might haue bene employed to better vse, then this idle businesse, or rather busy idlenesse.

1684 T. Tryon Friendly Advice to Gentlemen-planters iii. 149 Your Bones shall presently pay for the busie Idleness of your Brains, and the Sauciness of your Tongue.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 13 The eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis.

1859 Once Week 23 July 75/1 A County History..affords its own sober enjoyment. It is busy idleness to doze over its records.

1921 National Engineer Sept. 445/3 The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the use of life, is a busy idleness.

1997 E. Kaufmann in C. Weedon Postwar Women's Writing in German 201 The destructive effects of the busy idleness and non-productivity that were gaining the upper hand.

单词	busy idleness
释义	> as lemmas busy idleness busy idleness n. occupation or employment in trivial matters, idleness disguised as busyness; a tendency to engage in this; cf. busy-idle adj. 1. ΚΠ 1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. (new ed.) iii. 44 Some of our pens might haue bene employed to better vse, then this idle businesse, or rather busy idlenesse. 1684 T. Tryon Friendly Advice to Gentlemen-planters iii. 149 Your Bones shall presently pay for the busie Idleness of your Brains, and the Sauciness of your Tongue. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 13 The eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis. 1859 Once Week 23 July 75/1 A County History..affords its own sober enjoyment. It is busy idleness to doze over its records. 1921 National Engineer Sept. 445/3 The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the use of life, is a busy idleness. 1997 E. Kaufmann in C. Weedon Postwar Women's Writing in German 201 The destructive effects of the busy idleness and non-productivity that were gaining the upper hand. extracted from busyadj. < as lemmas
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