occupy
occupy 英 [ˈɒkjupaɪ] 美 [ˈɑkjupaɪ]
vt. 占据，占领；使忙碌
进行时:occupying 过去式:occupied 过去分词:occupied 第三人称单数:occupies
- When you spend a lot of your free time reading tea leaves, you occupy yourself with that pastime, meaning it takes up your time and keeps you busy.
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- vt. 占据，占领；使忙碌
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1. The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.
床似乎占去了大半个屋子。
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2. Administrative work occupies half of my time.
行政事务占用了我一半的时间。
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3. He occupies an office on the 12th floor.
他在 12 楼有一间办公室。
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4. The capital has been occupied by the rebel army.
叛军已占领了首都。
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5. a game that will occupy the kids for hours
能让小孩一玩就是几个小时的游戏
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6. She occupied herself with routine office tasks.
她忙于办公室的日常工作。
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7. The president occupies the position for four years.
总统任期四年。
- occupy (v.) mid-14c., "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," irregularly borrowed from Old French occuper "occupy (a person or place), hold, seize" (13c.) or directly from Latin occupare "take over, seize, take into possession, possess, occupy," from ob "over" (see ob-) + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize," from PIE root *kap- "to grasp." The final syllable of the English word is difficult to explain, but it is as old as the record; perhaps from a modification made in Anglo-French. During 16c.-17c. a common euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with" (sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.
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