busy-work（n.）
此外， busy work，"仅仅为了让人忙碌而做的工作"，1884年，美国英语，最初用于初等教育，源自 busy（形容词）+ work（名词）。
How to keep little children busy while not reciting, is the despair of many a teacher. Miss Goodyear solves the problem by introducing a modification of the kindergarten occupations, which she denominates "busy work." Tablets, rings, slats, weaving, and the like, drawing, writing, all are laid under contribution. In this way the interest of the little folk is aroused and directed. ["Annual Report of the State Superintendent of Education, of the State of South Carolina," 1886]
如何在不背诵的情况下让小孩子保持忙碌，是许多教师的绝望之处。古迪尔小姐通过引入幼儿园活动的改编版本来解决这个问题，她将其称为"忙碌的工作"。包括平板、环、木条、编织等活动，还有绘画、写作，所有这些都被充分利用。通过这种方式，小孩子们的兴趣被激发和引导。["南卡罗来纳州教育主管的年度报告"，1886年]
该词起源时间：1884年