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

• Occupying a prominent place in the room is a blackboard.
  在屋子中占据显著地位的是一块黑板。
• Hundreds to thousands of mitochondria exist in each human cell, occupying up to a quarter of their cytoplasm.
  成百上千个存在于人类细胞中的线粒体占据了整个细胞质的四分之一。
• It is occupying much of our time and attention.
  这占用了我们的大量时间和精力。
• Occupying an entire page in a book or paper.
  占据了书或者纸的整个页面。
• Now the two countries are once again occupying similar ideological terrain.
  如今，这两个国家再次占据了类似的意识形态领域。
• 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。
• A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico.
  与美国联合的一个自治的联邦，占有了波多黎各岛。
• The friend has been since always occupying the extremely important position in mine life.
  一直以来，朋友在我的生活中占据着十分重要的位置。
• 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。
• In trimorphic plants there are three different style lengths with stamens occupying the other two sizes in each plant.
  在三态型植物中，每个植株存在三种不同的柱头长度和另外两种长度的雄蕊。