英汉词典

employ 基本解释

• vt. 使用，采用；雇用；使忙于，使从事于
• n. 使用；雇用

employ 词态变化

employ 中文词源

em-, 进入，使。-ploy, 编织，卷入，词源同deploy, imply, implicate.即成为其中的一份子。

employ 英文词源

employ

employ: [15] Essentially, employ is the same word as imply [14] and implicate [16]. All three come ultimately from Latin implicāre ‘enfold, involve’, a compound verb formed from the prefix in- ‘in’ and plicāre ‘fold’ (source of English ply and related to English fold). This passed into Old French as emplier, which in turn was transmitted into English as imply; this originally retained the literal sense ‘enfold’, and it was only gradually that the metaphorical ‘involve as a necessary condition’ developed.

However, Old French emplier had a variant empleier, later emploier, which took a slightly different semantic route – from simply ‘involve’ to ‘involve in or apply to a particular purpose’. This was the sense in which English acquired it as employ.
=> fold, implicate, imply, ply

employ (v.)

early 15c., "apply or devote (something to some purpose); expend or spend," from Old French emploiier (12c.) "make use of, apply; increase; entangle; devote," from Latin implicare "enfold, involve, be connected with, unite, associate," from assimilated form of in- (see in- (2)) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Imply, which is the same word, retains more of the original sense. Sense of "hire, engage" first recorded in English 1580s, from meaning "involve in a particular purpose," which arose in Late Latin. Related: Employed; employing; employable.

employ (n.)

1660s, "action of employing," from French emploi, from Middle French verb employer (see employ (v.)). From 1709 as "state of being employed."

employ 英文释义

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

"they are looking for employment"

"he was in the employ of the city"

employ 同义词解析

hire, employ, engage

这些动词均含"雇用"之意。

hire： 普通用词，常指短期或长期雇用某人从事某一特定工作或一次性的工作，含强调为薪金而工作的意味。

employ： 正式用词，侧重受雇者虽为薪金而工作，但工作固定共享有相当尊严。

engage可与hire换用，特指雇用专业人员。

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。

employ 双语例句

1. The organisers have to employ performers to pull a crowd.

组织者不得不雇些演员来聚拢人气。

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2. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB.

其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。

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3. It was the first commercially available machine to employ artificial intelligence.

这是第一台作为商品出售的采用人工智能技术的机器。

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4. 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。

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5. 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。

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employ 实用场景例句

How many people does the company employ?

这个公司雇用了多少人？

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For the past three years he has been employed as a firefighter.

三年来他一直受雇当消防员。

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A number of people have been employed to deal with the backlog of work.

已雇来一些人处理积压的工作。

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He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.

他指责了这个国家政府采取的镇压手段。

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The police had to employ force to enter the building.

警察不得不强行进入大楼。

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She was employed in making a list of all the jobs to be done.

她忙着把要做的所有工作列一个清单。

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The company employs 18 staff...

公司雇用了18名员工。

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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。

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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。

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...the vocabulary that she employs.

她使用的词汇

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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。

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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。

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Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...

其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。

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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。

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If the farmers can get continuous sunshine, they should have a satisfactory harvest.

天气如果继续好下去, 农民们就会得到满意的收获了.

辞典例句

The agent was in the employ of a foreign country.

这个特工人员是外国雇佣的.

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When did he leave your employ?

他是什么时候不再受雇于你的?

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Alexander is a racist who refuses to employ blacks.

亚历山大是个种族歧视者,拒绝聘用黑人.

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Why didn't you employ the new method?

你们为什么不采用那个新方法 呢 ?

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He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.

他已经受雇于这家公司将近40年了.

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How many workmen do you employ at your factory?

你们厂雇用多少工人?

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We employ aluminium for our cooking pots.

我们用铝做饭锅.

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Some enterprises owned by the whole people employ workers and staff originally belonging to collective enterprises.

全民所有制企业里有集体所有制职工.

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I'll engage for John's behaviour should you decide to employ him.

如果你决定聘用约翰,我愿为他的行为担保.

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We only employ female workers.

我们只雇用女工.

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She has to employ two gardeners to look after that huge garden.

她要雇两个园丁来照料这个大花园.

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I shouldn't employ them — they're just a bunch of amateurs.

我不该雇用他们——简直是一群外行.

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We employ her as an English interpreter.

我们雇用她作英语翻译.

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