| 单词 | busman |
| 例句 | These were not a vacation from prison but a busman’s holiday. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like this question is cornering us into taking a busman’s holiday, and what I really want to know is what my colleagues are planning to watch over the summer. What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z I watch very little television because it’s my job, so it’s a bit of a busman’s holiday. Christopher Eccleston: 'I don't watch TV – it's too hard to suspend disbelief' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z “There is always something to do in Sharjah,” said Mr. Rabaté, out for a Saturday busman’s holiday with his wife and two small daughters. A Carefree Getaway Just Off the Persian Gulf 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Having so thoroughly conquered the movie industry, doing a medium-sized role in a new Coen film seems like a frivolous diversion, or a mild inconvenience: a busman’s holiday. George Clooney interview: ‘Donald Trump is a xenophobic fascist’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “In a way, we’re living Halloween every day, so painting my daughter’s face was really a bit of a busman’s holiday,” Barrie Gower says with a laugh. Need a ghoul? A mushroom creature? Someone's face to slide off? They've got you covered 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z O’Connor plucked this Prince song from an album by his busman’s holiday the Family — the Purple One didn’t even design to release it on his own — and turned it into an uncommonly somber torch song. 10 essential Sinéad O'Connor songs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z And yet, these charming pieces represent not work for hire so much as a kind of busman’s holiday, in which the author could let down his guard. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Short Stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Sequestered with his family for 18 months in their 1955 cabin in Esopus, New York, he embarked on a long busman’s holiday. What designers have been doing at home during the pandemic 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z When she was on vacation one summer in Europe -- or what she joked was a busman’s holiday—she agreed to speak at medical schools and hospitals. Lost Women of Science, Episode 4: Breakfast in the Snow 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s a busman’s holiday for me, and also a secret research trip. From academia to freelance curator 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Vespa World Days, which take place in a different location every year, can be seen as either a huge promotion shindig or the scooter fanatic’s equivalent of a busman’s holiday. 'Don't touch my Vespa!' Why Genoa is threatening to ban its icon of cool 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z She’s a bank systems analyst, from Ottawa, and their vacations, he says, are nearly always “busman’s holidays—in every city, I have to check out the mass transit.” Can Andy Byford Save the Subways? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z How can men write honestly about the bad behaviour of men, without it being a busman’s holiday for female readers? Can male writers avoid misogyny? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z It was a busman’s holiday for people who really like to drive buses. Revel in the Bounty of Spring, With a Feast From Yotam Ottolenghi 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This initially sounded ridiculous, the ultimate busman’s holiday, but the tours were overbooked. Prison Vendors See Continued Signs of a Captive Market 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z The busmen would have still resented it because they were taking away their overtime. What was behind the Bristol bus boycott? 2013-08-26T23:38:39Z Sometimes, on a day off from playing, I would go up there on a busman's and sit to chew the fat with the batting team. Northants want what they already have: one of best non-Test grounds 2012-05-23T14:33:31Z "And take a sort of busman's holiday, eh?" rejoined the sub, regarding his young brother with a tolerant smile. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The captain's twinkling black eyes gleamed with fun when Tommy assured him artlessly that the 'busman was "just such a dear old stick-in-the-mud" as he was. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z Her round, broad face mutely implored the ’busman to look the other way. The So-called Human Race We gave the luggage to the busman, and walked on down. A Poor Man's House She had given her new valise to a gray-haired 'busman who looked a little like the minister at home. Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University When I returned the 'busman was driving away after having brought Miss Flipp's uncle, and Andrew was assisting to fill a spring-cart with pumpkins. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn That's why they called him a busman and his holiday a busman's holiday. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 At first the busman smiled, And rather liked the fun— He merely smiled, that Hebrew child, And said, "Eccentric one!" Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs But as she stood there for a moment trying to collect herself, Weller, the 'busman, came up to her, and he was real enough, and his anxious face was no dream-face. Kitty Trenire With reference to this man the Sister remarked that as a result of the introduction of motor vehicles, busmen, cabmen, and blacksmiths were joining the ranks of her melancholy clientele in numbers. Regeneration The friendly 'busman directed me to a gable sheltered by a yellow jasmine-tree, where I tapped on the door with my knuckle. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Didst thou, perchance to lower heights declining Lately, as busman, strike for higher pay? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 27, 1891 The good old bishop sat On his ancestral chair, The busman came, sent up his name, And laid his grievance bare. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs As for the holiday itself, unreasonable persons are not lacking to point out that it is of the busman's variety. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand "Watcheer!" he exclaimed, affably, with the self-possessed nod only possible to cabbies and 'busmen. Martin Hewitt, Investigator At first the ’busman smiled,And rather liked the fun—He merely smiled, that Hebrew child,And said, “Eccentric one!” The Bab Ballads Policemen, postmen, railway guards, busmen, what good helpful fellows they all are! The Stark Munro Letters Uncle Matthew had told him that one could always depend upon a 'busman to provide comic entertainment, but this man, although, after a while, he had become talkative enough, had not said one funny thing. The Foolish Lovers But who would have thought that Dr. Patton, who thus denounced the cabmen and 'busmen of New York, had at the very time the "Negro Pew" in his own church! American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States They shout, they curse, they put their hands to their mouths trumpet wise and bellow at each other, these cabbies, vanmen, busmen, all angry at the block in the narrow way. The Open Air The good old Bishop satOn his ancestral chair,The ’busman came, sent up his name,And laid his grievance bare. The Bab Ballads And when they heard that happy word, Policemen leapt and ambled: The busmen pranced, the maidens danced, The men in bowlers gambolled. Forty-Two Poems He had not chaffed a policeman or a footpassenger or another 'busman, and now that they had passed away from the Elephant and Castle, his conversation seemed to have dried up. The Foolish Lovers From London's houses, huts and flats, Came busmen, snobs, and Earls, And ugly men in bowler hats With charming little girls. Forty-Two Poems |
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