English Dictionary

bustle

/ˈbʌsəl/

noun

(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir. / (computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.

The city's bustle can be overwhelming at times.

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.

we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence

意味（2）

(computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.

意味（3）

(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.

All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.