A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
忙
Busy
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
我宁愿整天都很忙,而当你为别人工作时,你还不够忙。
On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.
在巡演中,你永远没有家,你不习惯任何事情,你总是超级忙。
They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
我当地的银行通常有两个出纳,只有在非常忙的时候才会有一个出纳。
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
可惜的是,所有知道如何治理这个国家的人都在忙着开出租车或理发。
I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
我是一个喜欢保持忙碌的人,尤其是那些我觉得有意义和有成就感的项目。
Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
有一半的时间我根本不去想它,我只是因为太迟或太忙而随便说点什么。
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
我们总是忙于寻找眼前的事物,无暇享受当下。
Because when I have been busy at the United Nations during crises, it has meant working day and night.
因为当我在危机期间忙于联合国工作时,这就意味着日夜不停地工作。
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
我希望我能站在一个繁忙的角落里,手里拿着帽子,乞求人们把他们所有的时间都浪费在我身上。
Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how important they are.
有些人总是说自己有多忙,其实是想表明自己有多重要。
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
牛津大学和剑桥大学的教师们忙于教育年轻人,而不能教他们任何东西。
Yes, this is Mango himself. Listen I'm terribly busy and don't have time for a phone interview right now.
是的,这就是芒果。听着,我现在非常忙,没有时间接受电话面试。
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
承诺、日程安排和赞助商的亮相不会改变。它变得越来越忙,因为你变得越来越受欢迎,而且你越受欢迎,它实际上变得越来越忙。他们会说,‘是啊,让我们利用她,她现在很性感。我们来拍吧!”
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
如果我的电脑上有一个电子表格,它看起来就像我很忙。
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
我小的时候,父亲让我从早到晚忙个不停。当我不投干草,不拖玉米,也不开拖拉机的时候,我就在谷仓后面把棒球塞进他的手套里……如果全国所有的父母都遵循他的统治,一年之内青少年犯罪将减少一半。
I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.
我很小的时候就自学了音乐,所以当我开始在学校上课的时候,老师经常给我其他乐器让我忙碌,因为我比其他孩子更先进。
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
要么忙着活,要么忙着死。