occupy

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/    美 /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take or use.; To fill. transitive
    — The film occupied three hours of my time.
  2. To take or use.; To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of. transitive
    — The film occupied me for three hours.
  3. To take or use.; To fill or hold (an official position or role). transitive
    — I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher.
  4. To take or use.; To hold the attention of. transitive
    — I occupied her friend while he made his proposal.
  5. To take or use space.; To fill space. transitive
    — The historic mansion occupied two city blocks.
  6. To take or use space.; To live or reside in. transitive
    — The better apartments were already occupied.
  7. To take or use space.; To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory). transitive
    — The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army, […]
  8. To take or use space.; To place the theodolite or total station at (a point). transitive
  9. To have sexual intercourse with. obsolete,transitive
    — God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
  10. To do business in; to busy oneself with. obsolete
    — All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
  11. To use; to expend; to make use of. obsolete
    — all the gold that was occupied for the work

词形变化

occupies present,singular,third-person occupying participle,present occupied participle,past occupied past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template occupy infinitive occupy first-person,present,singular occupied first-person,past,singular occupy present,second-person,singular occupiest archaic,present,second-person,singular occupied past,second-person,singular occupies present,singular,third-person occupieth archaic,present,singular,third-person occupied past,singular,third-person occupy plural,present occupied past,plural occupy present,subjunctive occupied past,subjunctive occupy imperative,present - imperative,past occupying participle,present occupied participle,past

词汇关系

近义词
go to bed with sleep with
衍生词
cooccupy deoccupy misoccupy multioccupy nonoccupying occupiable occupier occupy oneself preoccupy reoccupy
相关词
occupant occupation

词源

From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.
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