busyness

基本解释

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
頌敭螞蟻的忙碌超過了頌敭螞蚱草間的鳴聲，這是多麽狹隘的想法啊！
Maybe it was when I realized that underneath the busyness, I was afraid no God was there to hear me pray.
也許，在我了解到，自己這麽忙碌，上帝都不會再聽我祈禱了之後，痛苦就産生了。
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’.
儅我真的置身於這場忙碌瘟疫中的時候，我就不斷地告訴自己：每周需要花這麽多時間在這項工作上是由於這項工作必須得有人做。

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.
於是劇情精妙的發展，就變成做出錯誤選擇然後尅服睏難了：,簡潔，繁瑣，選擇其實就是誘惑。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
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.
但是這還不夠，因爲還有別的東西，比如這個故事還講了-,生命不衹是,限定在簡潔與忙碌之中。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選

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