Employed是什么意思？

Employed

英[ɪm'plɔɪd] 美[ɪm'plɔɪd]

• v. 雇用( employ的过去式和过去分词 )，使用，利用；

例句

• 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。
• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture. 劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle. 我们雇了一位律师把法律纠纷理出头绪。
• His father employed a tutor for him. 他父亲给他请了一位家庭教师。
• 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。
• She's not yet old enough to be employed in a position of trust. 她还年轻, 不能担当重任。
• New methods of production were employed a few years ago. 新的生产方法几年前曾使用过。
• The safety net is an image commonly employed in everyday life. 安全网是日常生活中经常用到的一个比喻。
• A bulldozer was employed for excavating the foundations of the building. 推土机用来给楼房挖地基。
• The methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry’s favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。

英语四级真题

On March 13, while on duty, Charles McLaughlin, a very careless driver employed by the company Lummis was involved in another accident.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
It doesn't mean greater job security for the employed.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文

英语六级真题

American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as manangers or professionals.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  雇用
  If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
  例句
  The company employs 18 staff... 公司雇用了18名员工。 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。
• VERB
  使用;采用
  If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
  例句
  The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising. 警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。 ...the vocabulary that she employs. 她使用的词汇
• VERB
  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.
  例句
  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。 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。
• PHRASE
  受雇于
  If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them.
  例句
  Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB... 其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。 Those in his employ 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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary;
  "most of our graduates are employed"
  2. put to use