employ

英 [英 [ɪmˈplɔɪ]]

美 [美 [ɪmˈplɔɪ]]

v.  雇用; 应用; 运用; 使用
n.  雇用，受雇; 服务; 工作，职业

过去式：employed　 过去分词：employed　 现在分词：employing　 　 第三人称单数：employs

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双语例句

• 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。
• They employ a nanny, cleaner, and gardener.
  他们雇用了一个保姆、一个清洁工和一个花匠。
• 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 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。
• All the units employ hollow burned-clay blocks as the basic raw material.
  所有构件都用空心陶土砖做基本原料。
• The organisers have to employ performers to pull a crowd.
  组织者不得不雇些演员来聚拢人气。
• The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.
  这个特工人员是外国雇佣的。
• We employ friendly and knowledgeable staff.
  我们雇佣友善的、在行的员工。
• 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。
• Because of the legislation I could not employ a woman. Women have made themselves unemployable. They have scored an own goal.
  因为这项立法，我不能雇用女职员。妇女使得自己没法被人雇用，她们搬起石头砸了自己的脚。