employ
英[ɪm'plɔɪ] 美[ɪm'plɔɪ]
"they are looking for employment"
"he was in the employ of the city"
"use your head!"
"we only use Spanish at home"
"I can't use 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"
"They hired two new secretaries in the department"
"How many people has she employed?"
1.雇用
If a person or companyemploys you, they pay you to work for them.
e.g. The company employs 18 staff...
公司雇用了18名员工。
e.g. More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry...
3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。
2.使用;采用
If youemploy certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
e.g. The tactics the police are now toemploy are definitely uncompromising.
警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。
e.g. ...the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的词汇
3.利用，花费（时间）
If your timeis employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
e.g. Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters...
你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。
e.g. The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.
记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。
4.受雇于
If you arein the employ of someone or something, you work for them.
e.g. Others hinted that he was in theemploy of the KGB...
其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
e.g. Those in hisemploy were careful never to enrage him.
在他手底下干活的人都非常小心绝不去触怒他。
1. 雇用,利用,使用：empirical 实验上的 |employ 雇用,利用,使用 | empower 授权与
2. 使用：subjected to 经过~,易于~,进行~ |employ 使用 | handling 操作
They employ casual labor to pick the fruit
他们雇佣临时工摘水果。
You must employ someone to oversee the project.
你得雇个人监督这一工程。
Why do you think we should employ you?
你认为我们为何要雇佣你?
Different artists employ different painting techniques.
不同的画家会使用不同的绘画技巧。
We employ different security techniques to protect the database.
我们使用不同的保护措施来保护数据库。
How many people does the company employ?
这个公司雇用了多少人？
For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.
三年来他一直受雇当消防员。
A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.
已雇来一些人处理积压的工作。
He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.
他指责了这个国家政府采取的镇压手段。
The police had to employ force to enter the building.
警察不得不强行进入大楼。
She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.
她忙着把要做的所有工作列一个清单。
The company employs 18 staff...
公司雇用了18名员工。
More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry...
3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。
The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。
...the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的词汇
Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters...
你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。
The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.
记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。
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绝不去触怒他。
If the farmers can get continuous sunshine, they should have a satisfactory harvest.
天气如果继续好下去, 农民们就会得到满意的收获了.
The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.
这个特工人员是外国雇佣的.
When did he leave your employ?
他是什么时候不再受雇于你的?
Alexander is a racist who refuses to employ blacks.
亚历山大是个种族歧视者,拒绝聘用黑人.
Why didn't you employ the new method?
你们为什么不采用那个新方法 呢 ?
He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.
他已经受雇于这家公司将近40年了.
How many workmen do you employ at your factory?
你们厂雇用多少工人?
We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.
我们用铝做饭锅.
Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.
全民所有制企业里有集体所有制职工.
I'll engage for John's behaviour should you decide to employ him.
如果你决定聘用约翰,我愿为他的行为担保.
We only employ female workers.
我们只雇用女工.
She has to employ two gardeners to look after that huge garden.
她要雇两个园丁来照料这个大花园.
I shouldn't employ them 'u2014 they're just a bunch of amateurs.
我不该雇用他们——简直是一群外行.
We employ her as an English interpreter.
我们雇用她作英语翻译.
It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifling matters.
真可惜,像他这样有才能的人竟然被用来干这类琐事。
The company employs thousands of men at its car factory.
这个公司在汽车厂雇用了数千名工人。
Large numbers of female workers are employed at the lowest rates of pay.
大批女工以最低工资受雇。
She employed all her free time in sewing.
她把所有空闲时间都拿来做针线活。
He employed his spare time in reading.
他利用空闲时间看书。
He employs himself in reading after work.
下班以后,他把时间花在看书上。
He is employing himself in compiling a dictionary of English idioms.
他正忙于编写一本英语习语词典。
She employed herself in writing.
她从事写作。
We should always be employed in something.
我们总得干些事。
They were employed in scientific researches.
他们从事科学研究。
More scientists are being employed in studies to develop new medicines.
更多的科学家正在从事开发新药的研究。
She was employed in watering the flowers.
她忙着给花浇水。
The children were employed in weeding the garden.
孩子们正忙着给花园除草。
She was employed in copying letters.
她被雇来抄写书信。
For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.
我们打开行囊,布置陈设,一直忙了一两天。
He was employed in a bank.
他在一家银行工作。
employ your chiefest thoughts to courtship.
出自：Merchant of Venice,ShakespeareShe employed frequently all the improper words she knew.
出自：J. G. CozzensThey were going to take a leaf out of the Germans' book and employ poison gas.
出自：C. S. ForesterA complicated puzzle on which to employ his wit.
出自：A. WilsonThe likables' plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, areemployed ever after in life and work.
讨人喜欢的人非常合群, 这种特质能深化校园友谊, 迅速提升人际交往技巧, 而且这种特质如果开发的早, 会在我们日后的生活和工作中终身受用。
2019全国卷
Among other weaknesses, the measures cities mustemploy when left to tackle dirty air on their own are politically contentious, and therefore vulnerable.
还存在其他的一些不足，城市各自采取独立的行动来面对空气污染，这种独立行动存在政治争议，因此十分脆弱。
2020英语二
We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturallyemploy a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this.
我们总是自我感觉良好，这是一种根深蒂固的需求，自然地，我们就使用一些自我提高的策略来实现这一点。
2014英语二
A higher minimum wage will force businesses toemploy fewer people for less time.
提高最低工资会迫使企业雇佣更少的员工去工作更少的时间。
2019英语一
Its lawmakers gave preliminary approval last week to a law that would make it a crime toemploy ultra-thin models on runways.
法国立法者上周初步通过了一项法律，该法规定，雇用超瘦模特走秀属于犯罪。
2016英语一
Encouraging law firms to use technology and toemploy professional managers to focus on improving firms' efficiency.
鼓励律师事务所运用科技和雇佣职业经理人来提高律所的效率
2014英语一
