employed

英 [ɪmˈplɔɪd]

美 [ɪmˈplɔɪd]

v.  雇用; 应用; 运用; 使用
employ的过去分词和过去式

过去式：employed　过去分词：employed　

BNC.14577 / COCA.20500

柯林斯词典

• VERB 雇用
  If a person or companyemploysyou, they pay you to work for them.
  1. The company employs 18 staff...
     公司雇用了18名员工。
  2. 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。
  3. The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany.
     据政府统计，西德当时的就业人数为2,760万人。
• VERB 使用;采用
  If youemploycertain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
  1. 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。
  2. ...the vocabulary that she employs.
     她使用的词汇
  3. ...the approaches and methods employed in the study.
     研究中使用的思路和方法
• VERB 利用，花费（时间）
  If your timeis employed indoing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 受雇于
  If you arein the employ ofsomeone or something, you work for them.
  1. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...
     其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
  2. 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。

英英释义

adj

• having your services engaged for
  1. most of our graduates are employed
• put to use

双语例句

• He was employed by them for eighteen years.
  他为他们工作了18年。
• At its height Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people
  布莱奇利园的雇员数在巅峰时期曾达1.2万人。
• That farmer employed many farm labourers.
  那个农场主雇用了很多农工。
• 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。
• All available means have been employed.
  一切可用的办法都用上了。
• The methods employed are old-fashioned and uneconomical
  采用的方法很老套，没什么效益。
• Pity he's employed in a job not in his line.
  可惜他所学非所用。
• Stewardesses on planes should be employed for their ability, not for their looks.
  应该根据能力而不是容貌来录用飞机上的女服务员。
• Many Bangladeshis were employed in the construction or fishing industries.
  许多孟加拉国人都从事建筑业或渔业。
• Unemployed Queenslanders were victims of personal crime twice as often as employed people.
  在昆士兰，失业人群沦为个人犯罪受害者的可能性比就业人群高一倍。