busyness

基本解释

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
颂扬蚂蚁的忙碌超过了颂扬蚂蚱草间的鸣声，这是多么狭隘的想法啊！
Maybe it was when I realized that underneath the busyness, I was afraid no God was there to hear me pray.
也许，在我了解到，自己这么忙碌，上帝都不会再听我祈祷了之后，痛苦就产生了。
When I was really in the midst of my busyness epidemic, I was telling myself that I needed to work so many hours each week because ‘someone had to do it’.
当我真的置身于这场忙碌瘟疫中的时候，我就不断地告诉自己：每周需要花这么多时间在这项工作上是由于这项工作必须得有人做。

So the arabesque of the plot, as I say, is a matter of encountering bad object choices and overcoming them: -- neatness, busyness--choices which, by the way, are on the surface temptations.
于是剧情精妙的发展，就变成做出错误选择然后克服困难了：,简洁，繁琐，选择其实就是诱惑。
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But somehow or another it's not enough because the otherness, - the mutuality of regard that this story wants to enforce as life-- as life properly lived--is not entailed in and of itself in neatness and busyness.
但是这还不够，因为还有别的东西，比如这个故事还讲了-,生命不只是,限定在简洁与忙碌之中。
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Even my teen-age son found the sight of their proverbial busyness hard to resist.
NEWYORKER: Stung
When I caught myself slipping back into busyness, I took a few deep breaths and stopped immediately.
FORBES: Detox From Busyness