employ

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英[ɪmˈplɔɪ]
美[ɪmˈplɔɪ]

基本释义

v.
雇用; 采用; 利用

词性变化

实用例句

How many people does the company employ?

这个公司雇用了多少人?

牛津词典

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

三年来他一直受雇当消防员。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

The police had to employ force to enter the building.

警察不得不强行进入大楼。

牛津词典

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。

牛津词典

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.

辞典例句

The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.

这个特工人员是外国雇佣的.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

When did he leave your employ?

他是什么时候不再受雇于你的?

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《简明英汉词典》

Why didn't you employ the new method?

你们为什么不采用那个新方法 呢 ?

《现代英汉综合大词典》

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.

《简明英汉词典》

How many workmen do you employ at your factory?

你们厂雇用多少工人?

《现代英汉综合大词典》

We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.

我们用铝做饭锅.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

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.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

We only employ female workers.

我们只雇用女工.

《简明英汉词典》

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.

《简明英汉词典》

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

我不该雇用他们——简直是一群外行.

《简明英汉词典》

We employ her as an English interpreter.

我们雇用她作英语翻译.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

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

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

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

出自-2012年12月听力原文

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月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Automation makes it unnecessary to employ too many skilled workers.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

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月六级真题(第三套)阅读 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月六级真题(第一套)阅读 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年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

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

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 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年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

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

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

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

2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 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年考研真题(英语一)翻译 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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

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?"

同义词辨析

hire, employ, engage

这些动词均含"雇用"之意。

  • hire: 普通用词,常指短期或长期雇用某人从事某一特定工作或一次性的工作,含强调为薪金而工作的意味。
  • employ: 正式用词,侧重受雇者虽为薪金而工作,但工作固定共享有相当尊严。
  • engage可与hire换用,特指雇用专业人员。

use, apply, employ, utilize, avail, exploit

这些动词均含"使用,应用"之意。

  • use: 普通用词,着重为达到某一目的而利用某人或某物。
  • apply: 指将一事物运用于另一事物之上以发挥其有效作用。
  • employ: 指使用处于消极状态或未被用过的人或物,可以与use换用,但强调进行选择、充分利用。
  • utilize: 侧重有利可图或能达到某一实际目的。书面用词。
  • avail: 通常指使用手边或就近的人或物以有利于自己。
  • exploit: 强调充分利用。

同义词

反义词

vt.雇用

dismiss

其他释义

dismiss

最新英语单词

行业英语