occupying

英 [ˈɒkjupaɪɪŋ]

美 [ˈɑːkjupaɪɪŋ]

v.  使用，占用(空间、面积、时间等); 使用(房屋、建筑); 居住; 侵占; 占领; 占据
occupy的现在分词

现在分词：occupying　

BNC.19482 / COCA.17933

柯林斯词典

• VERB 居住，使用（建筑物或某地）
  The people whooccupya building or a place are the people who live or work there.
  1. There were over 40 tenants, all occupying one wing of the hospital...
     共有40多位房客，他们全部住在这家医院的一个病区。
  2. Land is, in most instances, purchased by those who occupy it.
     在大多数情况下，土地都是由其使用者购得。
• V-PASSIVE 占用，使用（房间、座位等）
  If a room or something such as a seatis occupied, someone is using it, so that it is not available for anyone else.
  1. The hospital bed is no longer occupied by his wife...
     他的妻子不在这张病床上了。
  2. I saw three camp beds, two of which were occupied.
     我看见了3张折叠床，其中两张已有人占了。
• VERB 占领；占据；侵占
  If a group of people or an armyoccupiesa place or country, they move into it, using force in order to gain control of it.
  1. U.S. forces now occupy a part of the country...
     美国军队现在占领了该国的一部分。
  2. Alexandretta had been occupied by the French in 1918 after the defeat of Turkey.
     土耳其溃败之后，亚历山大勒塔在1918年被法国人占领。
  3. ...the occupied territories.
     被侵占的领土
• VERB 担任（…职务）；居于（…地位）
  If someone or somethingoccupiesa particular place in a system, process, or plan, they have that place.
  1. We occupy a quality position in the market place...
     我们在市场上居于高端地位。
  2. Men still occupy more positions of power than women.
     担任要职的男性仍然比女性多。
• VERB 使忙碌；使全神贯注
  If somethingoccupiesyou, or if youoccupyyourself, your time, or your mind with it, you are busy doing that thing or thinking about it.
  1. Her parliamentary career has occupied all of her time...
     她整日忙于议会的工作。
  2. He hurried to take the suitcases and occupy himself with packing the car...
     他急匆匆地去拎手提箱，忙着往车里装。
  3. I would deserve to be pitied if I couldn't occupy myself.
     如果我都不能让自己忙碌起来，那真是太可怜了。
• VERB 使从事；使关注；使花费时间
  If somethingoccupiesyou, it requires your efforts, attention, or time.
  1. I had other matters to occupy me, during the day at least...
     至少白天我还有别的事情要做。
  2. This challenge will occupy Europe for a generation or more.
     这将是欧洲在未来二三十年或者更长的时间里所要面临的挑战。
• VERB 占（空间或面积）
  If somethingoccupiesa particular area or place, it fills or covers it, or exists there.
  1. Even quite small aircraft occupy a lot of space...
     哪怕很小的飞机也要占很大的空间。
  2. Bookshelves occupied most of the living room walls.
     这些书架占了起居室的大部分墙面。
• VERB 占，耗费（时间）
  If something such as a journeyoccupiesa particular period of time, it takes that amount of time to complete.
  1. She reached Karachi on Monday evening, the journey having occupied three days and nine hours.
     她在星期一晚上抵达了卡拉奇，这段行程耗时3天9小时。

双语例句

• Anyone who was suspected of collaborating with the occupying forces was arrested.
  任何被怀疑与占领军有通敌行为的人都被逮捕了。
• Their action of invading and occupying another country's territory was condemned by all the countries.
  他们侵占别国领土的行为受到各国的谴责。
• The occupying power may allow the existing government structure to continue under its control and supervision.
  占领国可能会允许现有的政府结构，继续处于其控制和监督。
• However, she had been occupying an important position in my little heart.
  可是她在我幼小的心灵中一直占据着重要的地位。
• Science culture is a modality of culture, occupying core position in the social culture system of human beings.
  科学文化是文化的一种形态，在人类社会文化系统中居于核心地位。
• They are occupying themselves in growing their own food.
  他们自己正忙于种植自己所需的粮食。
• Still, others have you occupying an amorphous spirit world.
  当然，其它的人已经占用了一个非固定的精神世界。
• Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia.
  是以前的苏联中最大的苏维埃共和国，占有欧洲东部和亚洲北部。
• More women are occupying the post, particularly in mainland Europe and the US.
  越来越多的女性占据了这个位置，尤其是在欧洲大陆和美国。
• Then I will have to find some other way of occupying my time.
  那我得找点别的事来打发时间了。