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TOEFL BNC: 1231 COCA: 1962
employ
ɪmplɔɪ ɛmˈplɔɪ ɪmˈplɔɪ
Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense employs, present participle employing, past tense , past participle employed
1 VERB

僱用 If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them. 僱用 [Also VERB n to-infinitive]
  • The company employs 18 staff. [VERB noun]

    公司僱用了18名員工。

  • More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry. [be VERB-ed + in]

    3,000餘名當地人受僱於旅遊業。

  • The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany. [VERB-ed]

    據政府統計,西德當時的就業人數爲2,760萬人。

SYN hire, commission, appoint, take on
2 VERB

使用;采用 If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them. 使用;采用 [Also VERB n + as]
  • The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. [VERB noun]

    警方目前即將采取的策略明顯很強硬。

  • ...the vocabulary that she employs. [VERB noun]

    她使用的詞匯

  • ...the approaches and methods employed in the study. [VERB-ed]

    研究中使用的思路和方法

3 VERB [usually passive]

利用,花費(時間) If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing. 利用,花費(時間)
  • Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters. [be VERB-ed + in]

    你可以有效地利用時間處理一些專業問題。

  • The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified. [be V-ed in -ing/n]

    記者們最好花時間向我們說明爲什麽訴訟費高得驚人。

4 PHRASE

受僱於 If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them. 受僱於 [formal]
  • Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB.

    其他人暗示他受僱於克格勃。

  • Those in his employ were careful never to enrage him.

    在他手底下幹活的人都非常小心絕不去觸怒他。

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