Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #12009
bustle
忙碌；匆忙奔走
To move busily and energetically, often fussily; to hurry around.
常与 about 连用
- 1.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
忙碌而精力充沛地移动(常接about)
- 2.
To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
充满；展示出充满活力和活动的丰富(常接with)
- 3.
To push around, to importune.
推搡,纠缠
充满；挤满；催促；纠缠；忙碌而精力充沛地移动(常接about)；充满；展示出充满活力和活动的丰富(常接with)；推搡,纠缠
In use
The kitchen was bustling with activity as the chefs prepared the banquet.
She bustled around the office, collecting papers and answering calls.
Tourists bustle through the market, looking for souvenirs.
bustle about/around
表示四处忙碌，常带地点状语。
She bustled about the kitchen preparing dinner.
她忙碌地在厨房里准备晚餐。
bustle with
主语常为公共场所，表示充满某种活动。
The market bustled with shoppers.
市场里熙熙攘攘，挤满了购物的人。
bustle sb into doing sth
及物用法，催促某人做某事。
Connections
Collocations
- bustle about
- 忙忙碌碌地四处走动
- She bustled about the kitchen preparing dinner.她在厨房里忙忙碌碌地准备晚餐。
- bustle around
- 到处奔忙
- Staff bustled around the office before the meeting.会议前，员工们在办公室里来回奔忙。
- bustle with activity
- 充满活力，熙熙攘攘
- The market bustled with activity early in the morning.清晨的市场熙熙攘攘，充满活力。
- bustling with people
- 挤满了人
- The square was bustling with people during the festival.节日期间，广场上挤满了人。
- bustle in and out
- 进进出出忙个不停
- Nurses bustled in and out of the patient's room.护士们在病人房间里进进出出，忙个不停。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记法：bustle 开头是 bus（巴士），想象巴士里挤满人，来回匆忙走动，充满活力。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：busy everyday movements、descriptions of lively places、formal or literary prose bustle 作动词时，主要有“忙碌地走动”（常接 about/around）和“充满、挤满”（常接 with）两种常见用法，多用于书面描写或叙述性文字，日常口语中较少直接用；表示“推搡、纠缠”的义项则更正式、偏文学。整体语域因搭配和义项而变化，故标为混合。
Pronunciation & Spelling
真正押韵的词是 hustle、rustle、muscle、tussle：重读元音都是 /ʌ/，结尾都读 /səl/（注意 muscle 拼作 -scle，tussle 拼作 -ssle）。castle、whistle 等虽然也有 -stle 且 t 不发音，但重读元音不同（/æ/、/ɪ/），读音与 bustle 不押韵。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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