1 VERB 雇用 If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them. 雇用 [Also VERB n to-infinitive]
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The company employs 18 staff. [VERB noun]
公司雇用了18名员工。
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More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry. [be VERB-ed + in]
3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。
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The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany. [VERB-ed]
据政府统计，西德当时的就业人数为2,760万人。
SYN hire, commission, appoint, take on
2 VERB 使用;采用 If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them. 使用;采用 [Also VERB n + as]
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The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. [VERB noun]
警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。
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...the vocabulary that she employs. [VERB noun]
她使用的词汇
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...the approaches and methods employed in the study. [VERB-ed]
研究中使用的思路和方法
SYN use, apply, exercise, exert
3 VERB [usually passive] 利用，花费（时间） If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing. 利用，花费（时间）
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Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters. [be VERB-ed + in]
你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。
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The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified. [be V-ed in -ing/n]
记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。
SYN spend, fill, occupy, involve
4 PHRASE 受雇于 If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them. 受雇于 [formal]
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