搜尋結果
occupy
- IPA[ˈäkyəˌpī]
美式
- reside or have one's place of business in (a building);fill or take up (a space or time)
verb: occupy, 3rd person present: occupies, gerund or present participle: occupying, past tense: occupied, past participle: occupied
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. reside or have one's place of business in (a building) the apartment she occupies in Manhattan 同義詞
- ▪ fill or take up (a space or time) two long windows occupied almost the whole wall 同義詞
- ▪ be situated in or at (a place or position in a system or hierarchy) on the corporate ladder, they occupy the lowest rungs
- ▪ hold (a position or job) a very different job from any that he had occupied before 同義詞
- 2. fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts) her mind was occupied with alarming questions 同義詞
- ▪ keep (someone) busy and active Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink
- 3. take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement the region was occupied by Britain during World War I 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ enter, take control of, and stay in (a building) illegally and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest the workers occupied the factory