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- occupy something
to fill or use a space, an area or an amount of time 使用，占用（空间、面积、时间等） The bed seemed to occupy most of the room. 床似乎占去了大半个屋子。 🔊🔊 As the company grew, it continued to occupy more space. 随着公司的发展，它继续占据更多的空间。 Administrative work occupies half of my time. 行政事务占用了我一半的时间。 🔊🔊 How do you occupy your time? 你一般都做什么？ Their time is fully occupied with their rigorous training regime. 他们严格的训练制度充斥着他们的时间。
- occupy something (formal)
to live or work in a room, house or building 使用（房屋、建筑）；居住 - occupy something
to enter a place in a large group and take control of it, especially by military force 侵占；占领；占据 The capital has been occupied by the rebel army. 叛军已占领了首都。 🔊🔊 Protesting students occupied the TV station. 抗议的学生占领了电视台。 🔊🔊
to fill your time or keep you busy doing something 使忙于（做某事）；忙着（做某事） - occupy somebody/something/yourself
a game that will occupy the kids for hours 能让小孩一玩就是几个小时的游戏 Problems at work continued to occupy his mind for some time. 工作上的问题继续在他的脑海中萦绕了一段时间。 🔊🔊 - occupy somebody/something/yourself with somebody/something
She occupied herself with routine office tasks. 她忙于办公室的日常工作。 🔊🔊 - occupy somebody/something/yourself (in) doing something
She occupied herself doing routine office tasks. 她忙于办公室的日常工作。 🔊🔊
- occupy somebody/something/yourself
- occupy something
to have an official job or position 任职；执政
Word OriginMiddle English: formed irregularly from Old French occuper, from Latin occupare ‘seize’. A now obsolete vulgar sense ‘have sexual relations with’ seems to have led to the general avoidance of the word in the 17th and most of the 18th cent.