occupy

• vt. 占据，占领；居住；使忙碌

oc-,向前，朝向，-cup,抓，握，持有，词源同capable,participate.即抓住的，占有的，引申词义占用，占据。

1. be present in; be inside of

2. keep busy with;

"She busies herself with her butterfly collection"

3. live (in a certain place)

4. occupy the whole of;

"The liquid fills the container"

5. be on the mind of;

"I worry about the second Germanic consonant"

6. as of time or space;

"It took three hours to get to work this morning"

"This event occupied a very short time"

7. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation;

"Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

8. engage or engross wholly;

"Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"

occupy

occupy: [14] Occupy comes via Anglo-Norman *occupier from Latin occupāre ‘seize’, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix ob- and capere ‘take’ (source of English capture, chase, etc). In the 16th and 17th centuries it was used in English for ‘have sex (with)’ (‘as king Edwin occupied Alfgifa his concubine’, John Bale, English Votaries 1546), and fell temporarily out of ‘polite’ usage: as Doll Tearsheet complained in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV 1597, ‘A captain! God’s light, these villains will make the word ‘captain’ as odious as the word ‘occupy’, which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted’.
=> captive, capture, chase

occupy (v.)

mid-14c., "to take possession of," also "to take up space or time, employ (someone)," irregularly borrowed from Old French occuper "occupy (a person or place), hold, seize" (13c.) or directly from Latin occupare "take over, seize, take into possession, possess, occupy," from ob "over" (see ob-) + intensive form of capere "to grasp, seize" (see capable). The final syllable of the English word is difficult to explain, but it is as old as the record; perhaps from a modification made in Anglo-French. During 16c.-17c. a common euphemism for "have sexual intercourse with" (sense attested from early 15c.), which caused it to fall from polite usage.

"A captaine? Gods light these villaines wil make the word as odious as the word occupy, which was an excellent good worde before it was il sorted." [Doll Tearsheet in "2 Henry IV"]

Related: Occupied; occupying.

But keeping those foxes from harm will occupy Boser and her colleagues for years to come.

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If we're honest with ourselves, tech is just another way to occupy our time and minds.

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Penguins, like other seabirds and marine mammals, occupy higher levels in the food chain and they are what we call bio-indicators of their ecosystems.

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The most successful office designs are like a good marriage-the well-designed office and the employees that occupy it are seemingly made for each other.

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Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library ( ' , completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.

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The bed seemed to occupy most of the room.

床似乎占去了大半个屋子。

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How much memory does the program occupy?

这个程序占用多少内存？

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Administrative work occupies half of my time.

行政事务占用了我一半的时间。

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He occupies an office on the 12th floor.

他在12楼有一间办公室。

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The capital has been occupied by the rebel army.

叛军已占领了首都。

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Protesting students occupied the TV station.

抗议的学生占领了电视台。

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a game that will occupy the kids for hours

能让小孩一玩就是几个小时的游戏

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She occupied herself with routine office tasks.

她忙于办公室的日常工作。

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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。

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The president occupies the position for four years.

总统任期四年。

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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。

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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。

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The hospital bed is no longer occupied by his wife...

他的妻子不在这张病床上了。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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We occupy a quality position in the market place...

我们在市场上居于高端地位。

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Men still occupy more positions of power than women.

担任要职的男性仍然比女性多。

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Her parliamentary career has occupied all of her time...

她整日忙于议会的工作。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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Even quite small aircraft occupy a lot of space...

哪怕很小的飞机也要占很大的空间。

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Bookshelves occupied most of the living room walls.

这些书架占了起居室的大部分墙面。

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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。

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