人／時段被事情塞滿
最貼近核心畫面的一族：把「滿到沒空檔」直接放在人和他的時間上。
busy (lots to do) · adjective · A2
Working hard and having a lot of things to do.
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核心畫面
You can picture busy as a space that is filled right up with activity, with no empty room left over. The clearest case is a person whose hours are packed with things to do — hands full, nothing spare. From that one picture the word spreads outward: a stretch of time can be packed the same way, and so can a place (filled with people and movement), a phone line (already filled by another call), even a pattern (filled with too many little details). The verb is just you doing the filling — putting your own time to use so it doesn't sit empty.
可以把 busy 想成一個被活動塞滿、沒有留空的空間。最清楚的例子是一個人：他的時間被一堆要做的事塞得滿滿的，手上沒…更多收起
可以把 busy 想成一個被活動塞滿、沒有留空的空間。最清楚的例子是一個人：他的時間被一堆要做的事塞得滿滿的，手上沒空、沒有餘裕。從這個畫面往外擴散——一段時間可以被同樣塞滿，一個地方可以（被人潮和走動塞滿），一條電話線可以（已經被另一通電話佔滿），甚至一個圖案也可以（被太多小細節塞滿）。動詞就是你自己去做這個「塞滿」的動作——把自己的時間用起來，不讓它空著。Four branches
地方被人潮塞滿
同樣是「填滿」，但裝進去的是人、車、來來去去的動作，於是空間顯得熱鬧、繁忙。
busy (place full of people/traffic) · adjective · A2
(Of a place) full of people, traffic, and movement.
（地方）熱鬧、繁忙
線路被佔滿
把「已經被佔滿、進不去」用在電話線上：對方那頭已經有一通在講，你這通插不進來。
busy (phone line) · adjective · A2
If a telephone you are calling is busy, it makes a repeated sound because the other person is already on a call.
（電話）佔線中
圖案塞太多細節
把「塞太滿」用在眼睛看到的畫面上：細節多到沒有留白，於是顯得雜亂。
busy (pattern, too much detail) · adjective · A2
A pattern or design that is busy has too many small details, so it can look messy.
（圖案）太花、太雜
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
busyadj詞源 1/ˈbɪz.i/
- 1
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Be careful crossing that busy street.
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- 2
Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- The director cannot see you now: he's busy.
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- 3
Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Near-synonym: swamped
- Finding the time to work out and cook healthy meals is easily pushed to the wayside in our ordinary, busy lives.
- 4
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- 5
Officious; meddling.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.
busynoun詞源 1/ˈbɪz.i/
- 1
derogatoryslangA police officer.
- I remember playing on a building site once and coming across a five-pound note. I could hardly believe it when I spotted it poking out of the rubble. Excitedly, I ran straight home and gave it to my mum. I was hero of the hour until I got into trouble with the busies – the police – soon afterwards for pinching a bottle of milk from a float.
busyverb詞源 2/ˈbɪz.i/
- 1
To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.
- On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
- The work busied me all afternoon.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。