Employ
[ɪm'plɒɪ;em-] or [ɪm'plɔɪ]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To inclose; to infold.
(v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies.
(v. t.) To occupy; as, to employ time in study.
(v. t.) To have or keep at work; to give employment or occupation to; to intrust with some duty or behest; as, to employ a hundred workmen; to employ an envoy.
(n.) That which engages or occupies a person; fixed or regular service or business; employment.
吉米編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Busy, engage, engross, exercise, occupy.[2]. Use, apply, make use of.[3]. Entrust with an agency, enlist in one's service, give employment to.
n. [Poetical.] Employment.
卡里校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:reapply, economize, occupy, engage, engross
ANT:Discard, dismiss, misuse, misemploy
校對:雷明顿
例句/造句/用法:
- Ott, who has remained in his employ for over forty years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was the work of this brutal ruffian whom he had the misfortune to employ. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We could not then employ him; but I foolishly let him know, as a secret, that I soon intended to begin a newspaper, and might then have work for him. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The 8000 or so motion-picture theatres of the country employ no fewer than 40,000 people, whose aggregate annual income amounts to not less than $37,000,000. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Whoever Colonel Campbell might employ, said Frank Churchill, with a smile at Emma, the person has not chosen ill. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- To effect that object, it is necessary to employ a voltaic battery separated from the vessel in which the decomposition takes place. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- His abilities, in both these respects, are generally in proportion to the extent of his stock, or to the number of people whom it can employ. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- No my dear lady, in regard to my being employed just now, looking out for work. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- In the hydraulic form of elevator, a motor worked by water is employed to lift the car, although steam power is also employed to raise the water. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Inasmuch as the nitrogen of liquid air evaporates first, and leaves nearly pure liquid oxygen, it may also be employed as a means for producing and applying oxygen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In 1800 Mears devised a machine employing shears. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Yet so strong is the appearance of this having occurred that naturalists can hardly avoid employing language having this plain signification. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These inventors conceived and put in practice the great idea of employing the current from an electro-magnetic machine to excite its own electric magnet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Their labour, it is said, replaces only the stock which employs them, together with its ordinary profits. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The industry employs many thousands of people in the manufacture of these instruments and records which afford entertainment, instruction and amusement to the entire world. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The growing of wool is not the chief purpose for which the sheep farmer employs his industry and stock. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- A smaller proportion of it will, therefore, be sufficient to replace, with the ordinary profit, the stock which employs that labour. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The labour of menial servants does not continue the existence of the fund which maintains and employs them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The retailer himself is the only productive labourer whom it immediately employs. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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