occupy
/ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/verb
(-ies, -ied)with obj.
1
- reside or have one's place of business in (a building)居住; 占用：
the rented flat she occupies in Hampstead.
她在汉普斯特德所居住的租来的公寓。
1.1
- fill or take up (a space or time)占据（空间, 时间）：
two long windows occupied almost the whole of the end wall.
两扇长玻璃窗几乎占据了全部末端墙面。
1.2
- be situated in or at (a place or position in a system or hierarchy)居（某种地位）：
the Bank of England occupies a central position in the UK financial system.
英格兰银行在英国金融系统中处于中心地位。
1.3
- hold (a position or job)拥有（职位, 工作）。
2
- （常作be occupied with/in）fill or preoccupy (the mind or thoughts)使（大脑, 思绪）老想着：
her mind was occupied with alarming questions.
她满脑子都是令人不安的问题。
2.1
- keep (someone) busy and active使忙碌：
Sarah occupied herself taking the coffee cups over to the sink
萨拉忙着把咖啡杯拿到洗碗槽那里
as adj. occupied tasks which kept her occupied for the remainder of the afternoon.让她在下午剩下的时间里忙个不停的工作。
3
- take control of (a place, especially a country) by military conquest or settlement军事占领（某地, 尤指国家）：
Syria was occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate.
受国际联盟的委任托管, 叙利亚由法国军事占领。
3.1
- enter, take control of, and stay in (a building) illegally and often forcibly, especially as a form of protest（尤指为表示抗议而）非法强占（建筑物）：
the workers occupied the factory.
工人们占领了工厂。
词源
Middle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare 'seize'. A now obsolete vulgar sense 'have sexual relations with' seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th cent.