搜尋結果
occupy
- IPA[ˈɒkjʊpʌɪ]
英式
- 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 rented flat she occupies in Hampstead 同義詞
- ▪ fill or take up (a space or time) two long windows occupied almost the whole of the end wall 同義詞
- ▪ be situated in or at (a position in a system or hierarchy) the Bank of England occupies a central position in the UK financial system
- ▪ 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) 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 Syria was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate 同義詞 反義詞
- ▪ enter and stay in (a building) without authority and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest the workers occupied the factory