employ

高中CET4CET6TOEFL考研

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基本釋義

v.
雇用; 采用; 利用

詞性變化

實用例句

How many people does the company employ?

這個公司雇用了多少人?

牛津詞典

For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.

三年來他一直受雇當消防員。

牛津詞典

A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.

已雇來一些人處理積壓的工作。

牛津詞典

He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.

他指責了這個國家政府采取的鎮(zhèn)壓手段。

牛津詞典

The police had to employ force to enter the building.

警察不得不強行進入大樓。

牛津詞典

She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.

她忙著把要做的所有工作列一個清單。

牛津詞典

The company employs 18 staff...

公司雇用了18名員工。

More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry...

3,000余名當?shù)厝耸芄陀诼糜螛I(yè)。

The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.

警方目前即將采取的策略明顯很強硬。

...the vocabulary that she employs.

她使用的詞匯

Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters...

你可以有效地利用時間處理一些專業(yè)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.

記者們最好花時間向我們說明為什么訴訟費高得驚人。

Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...

其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。

Those in his employ were careful never to enrage him.

在他手底下干活的人都非常小心絕不去觸怒他。

If the farmers can get continuous sunshine, they should have a satisfactory harvest.

天氣如果繼續(xù)好下去, 農(nóng)民們就會得到滿意的收獲了.

辭典例句

The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.

這個特工人員是外國雇傭的.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

When did he leave your employ?

他是什么時候不再受雇于你的?

《簡明英漢詞典》

Alexander is a racist who refuses to employ blacks.

亞歷山大是個種族歧視者,拒絕聘用黑人.

《簡明英漢詞典》

Why didn't you employ the new method?

你們?yōu)槭裁床徊捎媚莻€新方法 呢 ?

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.

他已經(jīng)受雇于這家公司將近40年了.

《簡明英漢詞典》

How many workmen do you employ at your factory?

你們廠雇用多少工人?

《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》

We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.

我們用鋁做飯鍋.

《簡明英漢詞典》

Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.

全民所有制企業(yè)里有集體所有制職工.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

I'll engage for John's behaviour should you decide to employ him.

如果你決定聘用約翰,我愿為他的行為擔保.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

We only employ female workers.

我們只雇用女工.

《簡明英漢詞典》

She has to employ two gardeners to look after that huge garden.

她要雇兩個園丁來照料這個大花園.

《簡明英漢詞典》

I shouldn't employ them — they're just a bunch of amateurs.

我不該雇用他們——簡直是一群外行.

《簡明英漢詞典》

We employ her as an English interpreter.

我們雇用她作英語翻譯.

《簡明英漢詞典》

真題例句

It is said that all of us employ a mix of both these types of planning.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Companies are employing in-house versions of Facebook and creating their own "app stores" to deliver software to employees.

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

It doesn't mean greater job security for the employed.

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

And now, most of the British public is familiar even with the extremes of Heston BlumenthaPs molecular gastronomy, a form of cooking that employs scientific methods to create the perfect dish.

出自-2011年6月閱讀原文

On March 13, while on duty, Charles McLaughlin, a very careless driver employed by the company Lummis was involved in another accident.

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

Sun School employs no cooking or cleaning stuff,these jobs are done by students and teachers

出自-2012年12月聽力原文

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

出自-2016年6月閱讀原文

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

出自-2016年12月閱讀原文

American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as manangers or professionals.

出自-2014年6月閱讀原文

One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.

出自-2014年6月閱讀原文

Automation makes it unnecessary to employ too many skilled workers.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

If you get a call and are asked if you're employed, and you say yes, you're employed

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.

出自-2013年6月閱讀原文

This is part of the process of self-validation whereby we employ self-disclosures to seek support for our self-concept.

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

We use bonding humor to enhance our social connections* but we also may employ it as a way of excluding or rejecting an outsider

出自-2013年12月聽力原文

A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 填空題 原文

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

2018年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 語法填空 原文

The likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, are employed ever after in life and work.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

The University of Adelaide employs a full-time staff of fire prevention professionals.

2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

出自-2014年考研閱讀原文

Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime to employ ultra-thin models on runways.

出自-2016年考研閱讀原文

Among other weaknesses, the measures cities must employ when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

2014年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Then I counter with another reasonable argument: that a higher minimum wage will force businesses to employ fewer people for less time.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. the state of being employed or having a job;

    "they are looking for employment"

    "he was in the employ of the city"

Verb
  • 1. put into service; make work or employ (something) for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;

    "use your head!"

    "we only use Spanish at home"

    "I can't make use of this tool"

    "Apply a magnetic field here"

    "This thinking was applied to many projects"

    "How do you utilize this tool?"

    "I apply this rule to get good results"

    "use the plastic bags to store the food"

    "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

  • 2. engage or hire for work;

    "They hired two new secretaries in the department"

    "How many people has she employed?"

同義詞辨析

hire, employ, engage

這些動詞均含"雇用"之意。

  • hire: 普通用詞,常指短期或長期雇用某人從事某一特定工作或一次性的工作,含強調(diào)為薪金而工作的意味。
  • employ: 正式用詞,側(cè)重受雇者雖為薪金而工作,但工作固定共享有相當尊嚴。
  • engage可與hire換用,特指雇用專業(yè)人員。

use, apply, employ, utilize, avail, exploit

這些動詞均含"使用,應(yīng)用"之意。

  • use: 普通用詞,著重為達到某一目的而利用某人或某物。
  • apply: 指將一事物運用于另一事物之上以發(fā)揮其有效作用。
  • employ: 指使用處于消極狀態(tài)或未被用過的人或物,可以與use換用,但強調(diào)進行選擇、充分利用。
  • utilize: 側(cè)重有利可圖或能達到某一實際目的。書面用詞。
  • avail: 通常指使用手邊或就近的人或物以有利于自己。
  • exploit: 強調(diào)充分利用。

同義詞

反義詞

vt.雇用

dismiss

其他釋義

dismiss

最新英語單詞

行業(yè)英語