| 词汇 | occupying |
| 释义 | occupying present participle ofoccupy occupy verb[ T ] uk /ˈɒk.jə.paɪ/ us /ˈɑː.kjə.paɪ/ occupyverb[T] (FILL)B2 to fill, exist in, or use a place or period of time: 占有，占用，占据（空间或时间） The rest of the time was occupied with writing a report.剩下的时间用来写了份报告。 The house hasn't been occupied (= lived in)by anyone for a few months.这幢房子已经有几个月没人住了。 formalA large picture of the battle of Waterloo occupied the space above the fireplace.一幅描绘滑铁卢战役的巨幅画作占据了壁炉上方的空间。 B2 to keep someone busy or interested: 使（某人）忙于；使（某人）感兴趣 On long journeys I occupy myself with solving maths puzzles.长途旅行时，我用解数学难题来打发时间。 The programme will occupy that half-hour slot before the nine o'clock news. All physical objects occupy space.一切实物都占据空间。 Historically, issues of this kind have not occupied the foreground of political debate.从历史上看，这类问题在政治辩论中没有占据过显要位置。 He occupies a prominent position in the rogues' gallery of the financial world.在金融界那帮臭名昭著的家伙中，他是数一数二的人物。 The house occupies a commanding position at the top of the valley.这所房子位于山谷顶上一个居高临下的位置。 Filling and completing backfill bow box ticking brick brick something up brim jam occupy overcrowd overrun pack something/somewhere out permeate plug saturable squeeze (someone/something) in/squeeze (someone/something) into something stuffing suffuse supersaturated tank tie You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making people excited and interested occupyverb[T] (TAKE CONTROL)C1 (of an army or group of people) to move into and take control and/or possession of a place: （军队或一伙人）占领，占据 Troops quickly occupied the city.军队很快占领了城市。 Protesting students occupied the university office for two weeks.抗议的学生占领大学办公楼达两个星期。 the occupying forces占领军 Attacking & invading advance guard aggressor ambush beleaguer beleaguered besiege blitz cyberbullying cyberwarfare declare war on someone/something false flag full-frontal assault hit and run pincer movement post-attack post-conquest pre-emption privateer surgical strike swoop Examples of occupyingoccupying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Many of those occupying the other royalist camp adopted not dissimilar views. Occupying intersticial positions between genres, performance venues and levels of cultural artefact, burlesques breached cultural categories within the theatrical world. Of course, it remains to be determined whether these populations are connected to other populations, occupying natural or artificial habitats. In occupying and exploiting the mysterious space of the sacred in our contemporary 'secular' world, the nation revitalises the profane. Interhemispheric space occupying lesion is the dilated vein. Here the incomers could imagine that they were occupying vacant land. The third is stopped, occupying the upper area of the common workspace and constitutes a static obstacle. The church, arguably the leading ' national ' institution, would find itself once again occupying not only a central political role nationally but also internationally. If most archaeological remains possess the above properties, classical antiquities had the additional advantage of occupying a central position in western imagination and cosmology. Each attribute of the item can be considered as occupying a point on one dimension of a space which contains all the related artefacts. They invariably record the favourable influence of a dense civil society, comprising formal and informal organizations occupying the space between the government and the family. It seems that the vegetation islands do not grow by degrading the underlying substrate but by occupying pre-existing depressions, where sand and organic matter accumulate. Frontal area short, occupying less than half of cranidial height (excluding occipital spine) in anterior view. In a harem one must wait and busy oneself as one can, notably by occupying oneself with one's beauty. A wellorganised party had a far greater chance of occupying the main square of the constituency than a disorganised crowd. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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