1. 雇（用），雇佣，受雇
2. 使从事于，（使）忙于，（使）专心于
3. 设置
4. 安排，差遣，操持
5. 让
6. 使用，利用，采用，用

1. （为某人所）雇用，受雇，替某人工作
2. 使用
3. 职业，工作（现用于诗）
4. 服务

1. vt. 雇用 give work and pay to; take on or appoint a person as a paid worker
2. vt. 使用,利用 make use of

1. [U]雇用,受雇; 服务 employment, service
2. [C]工作,职业 job

1. the state of being employed or having a job;

   "they are looking for employment"
   "he was in the employ of the city"
   

1. put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose;

   "use your head!"
   "we only use Spanish at home"
   "I can't use this tool"
   "Apply a magnetic field here"
   "This thinking was applied to many projects"
   "How do you utilize this tool?"
   "I apply this rule to get good results"
   "use the plastic bags to store the food"
   "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
   

2. engage or hire for work;

   "They hired two new secretaries in the department"
   "How many people has she employed?"
   

1.雇用
If a person or companyemploys you, they pay you to work for them.

e.g. The company employs 18 staff...
公司雇用了18名员工。
e.g. 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。

2.使用;采用
If youemploy certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.

e.g. The tactics the police are now toemploy are definitely uncompromising.
警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。
e.g. ...the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的词汇

3.利用，花费（时间）
If your timeis employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

4.受雇于
If you arein the employ of someone or something, you work for them.

e.g. Others hinted that he was in theemploy of the KGB...
其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
e.g. Those in hisemploy were careful never to enrage him.
在他手底下干活的人都非常小心绝不去触怒他。

1. 雇用,利用,使用：empirical 实验上的 |employ 雇用,利用,使用 | empower 授权与

2. 使用：subjected to 经过~,易于~,进行~ |employ 使用 | handling 操作

1. The factory employed 600 hands.
   该工厂雇用600人。
2. He employs three typists.
   他雇有三个打字员。
3. They employed five waiters.
   他们雇用五个招待员。
4. We could not employ him then.
   当时,我们不能雇用他。
5. If you don't trust him, why do you employ him?
   如果你不信任他,那你为什么聘用他?
6. They didn't dare to employ a good-looking girl themselves for fear of what people would say.
   他们自己不敢雇用一个漂亮的女孩子,就是因为害怕人们说闲话。
7. This bird employs its beak as a weapon.
   这种鸟用嘴作武器。
8. How do you employ your spare time?
   你怎么利用你的业余时间?
9. He employs his time wisely.
   他善于利用时间。
10. You should employ your time better.
    你应该更好地利用你的时间。
11. They have employed none of the imported alloys in manufacturing this kind of steel.
    他们在炼制这种钢时没有用任何进口合金。
12. He employed himself teaching English.
    他从事英语教学工作。
13. His wife employs part of her leisure time working in their garden.
    他妻子利用空余时间在花园里干活。
14. He employed his spare time reading novels.
    他利用空余时间读小说。
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15. At the moment I am employed by International Computer Co.Ltd.
    目前我在国际计算机有限公司任职。
16. New methods of production were employed a few years ago.
    新的生产方法几年前曾使用过。
17. You would be better employed tidying your room.
    你最好打扫一下你的房间。

1. They employed the girl as a typist.
   他们雇用那位小姐当打字员。
2. We employ her as an English interpreter.
   我们雇用她作英语翻译。
3. The company employed his sister as a secretary.
   那公司雇用他姐姐当秘书。
4. The company employs Mr.Tetterman as a consultant.
   那公司雇德特曼先生当顾问。
5. We employ English as a common language.
   我们把英语当作共同语言使用。
6. This bird employs its beak as a weapon.
   这种鸟用嘴作武器。
7. All the units employ hollow burned-clay blocks as the basic raw material.
   所有构件都用空心陶土砖作基本原料。
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8. She is employed as a bank clerk.
   她被雇用为银行职员。
9. Richard is employed as an accountant.
   理查德被聘当会计。
10. She is employed as a secretary in the firm.
    她在那家公司里当秘书。
11. He once was employed as a country school-teacher.
    他曾在乡村小学任教。
12. A hollow tube is often employed as a conductor of current.
    空心管常常用作导电体。

1. He employed ten workers to sell computers.
   他雇用了十名工人卖计算机。
2. We usually employ a knife to cut up food.
   我们常用刀切食物。
3. We are employing a firm of architects to design a new extension.
   我们正雇用一家建筑公司去设计新增的那部分。
4. We employed a lawyer to straighten out our legal tangle.
   我们雇了一位律师把法律纠纷理出头绪。
5. The police employed force to open the door.
   警察破门而入。
6. The police had to employ force to break up the crowd.
   警察不得不用武力驱散人群。
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7. She was employed to design an engine.
   她受雇设计一台发动机。

1. I left their employ after an argument.
   我与他们争吵之后就辞掉了工作。
2. He found a good employ.
   他找到一分好差事。

employ about (v.+prep.)

雇用 give work and pay to
employ sth about sth

It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifling matters.

真可惜,像他这样有才能的人竟然被用来干这类琐事。

employ at (v.+prep.)

雇用 pay sb to work (at a particular place, or rate of pay)
employ sb at sth/v-ing

The company employs thousands of men at its car factory.

这个公司在汽车厂雇用了数千名工人。

Large numbers of female workers are employed at the lowest rates of pay.

大批女工以最低工资受雇。

employ for (v.+prep.)

把…用来做 use sth to do sth

employ in (v.+prep.)

使忙于,使从事于 be busy with sth or do-ing sth
employ oneself/sth in sth/v-ing

She employed all her free time in sewing.

她把所有空闲时间都拿来做针线活。

He employed his spare time in reading.

他利用空闲时间看书。

He employs himself in reading after work.

下班以后,他把时间花在看书上。

He is employing himself in compiling a dictionary of English idioms.

他正忙于编写一本英语习语词典。

She employed herself in writing.

她从事写作。

We should always be employed in something.

我们总得干些事。

They were employed in scientific researches.

他们从事科学研究。

More scientists are being employed in studies to develop new medicines.

更多的科学家正在从事开发新药的研究。

She was employed in watering the flowers.

她忙着给花浇水。

The children were employed in weeding the garden.

孩子们正忙着给花园除草。

She was employed in copying letters.

她被雇来抄写书信。

For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.

我们打开行囊,布置陈设,一直忙了一两天。

He was employed in a bank.

他在一家银行工作。

in the employ of〔in sb's employ〕

受…雇用,在…任职 employed by

• employ your chiefest thoughts to courtship.

  出自：Merchant of Venice,Shakespeare

• She employed frequently all the improper words she knew.

  出自：J. G. Cozzens

• They were going to take a leaf out of the Germans' book and employ poison gas.

  出自：C. S. Forester

• A complicated puzzle on which to employ his wit.

  出自：A. Wilson

1. employ的基本意思是利用闲散或闲置的人、物或时间,使其发挥有益的作用,常译为“雇用”“使用”“利用”“使忙于”“从事于”等。
2. employ是及物动词,接名词或代词宾语,也可接以动词不定式或as短语充当补足语的复合宾语。
3. employ常可接介词in,表示“把时间花在…上”。

1. employ是不可数名词,基本意思是“雇用”“受雇”“服务”,引申可指某人的工作、职业等,作此解时,是可数名词。
2. employ前面常接介词in,表示“受…雇用”“在…任职”。

employ, hire

这两个词都有“雇用”的意思。其区别是：

1.employ表示一般意义的“雇用”某人,被雇用人工作相对稳定,有固定薪水,还可能晋升职务等,多用于政府部门、工商企业、银行、公司、团体等各种机构,如果用于私人雇用时,即讲好工作待遇,就可开始工作; hire作“雇用”解时,是美式英语或非正式的英语用法,多指用低薪雇用临时工人或进行特殊工作的人。例如:

One thousand hands are employed at this factory.这个工厂雇用1000名工人。

They employ day-labourers during the busy season.他们忙时要雇短工。

We hired a driver to take us on a tour of the city.我们雇了一个司机带我们浏览这个城市。

2.employ的宾语是人, hire的宾语可以是人,也可以是物。 例如:

The new road will employ thousands of men.修这条新路要用成千上万的人。

The store hired two more clerks for the sale.这家商店为了这次廉价销售又雇了两名店员。

During the holiday we hired a boat and went fishing.假期我们租了一条船去钓鱼。

employ, use

这两个词都可表示“用,使用”。其区别是：

1.当强调雇用、选用时用employ,强调手段或工具时用use。例如:

They employed the weapon of self-criticism.他们使用了自我批评的武器。

May I use your knife?我可以用你的刀子吗?

2.use的宾语多为具体的事物; employ的宾语多为时间、权力等抽象名词。例如:

He employed his spare time in reading.他利用空闲时间看书。

We used 20 tons of coal last winter.去年冬天我们用了20吨煤。

3.use要比employ常用。

use，apply，employ，utilize，avail，exploit

这些动词均含“使用，应用”之意。

use普通用词，着重为达到某一目的而利用某人或某物。

apply指将一事物运用于另一事物之上以发挥其有效作用。

employ指使用处于消极状态或未被用过的人或物，可以与use换用，但强调进行选择、充分利用。

utilize侧重有利可图或能达到某一实际目的。书面用词。

avail通常指使用手边或就近的人或物以有利于自己。

exploit强调充分利用。

• ☆ 17世纪60年代进入英语，直接源自法语的eemploi，意为雇用，聘。