BUSY/HAVE A LOT TO DOto make yourself very busy doing something, especially in order to forget about something else 〔尤为了忘记别的事而〕让自己沉浸在某事中,埋头于某事
Alice submerged herself in work to try and forget about Tom.
艾丽斯埋头工作,试图忘记汤姆。
Examples from the Corpus
submerge yourself in something• She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered.• With resigneddisgust, Alice lay back, submerging herself in the only softness available at that time-the pillow.• He preferred, he said, to submerge himself in the urbanswill, or be in deep country.• Often, departinghigh-leveladministration types go teachdry government courses or submerge themselves in think tanks.• Alice submerged herself in work to try and forget about Tom.