employed
v. 雇用; 应用,使用(employ的过去式和过去分词)
If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
The company employs 18 staff...
公司雇用了18名员工。
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。
If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
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。
...the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的词汇
If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
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。
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。
If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them.
Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...
其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
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。
1. having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary;
2. put to use
The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour.
他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级.
The two girls were employed for filling envelopes.
雇了两个女孩装信封.
We employed a lawyer to straighten our legal tangle.
我们雇了一位律师把法律纠纷理出头绪.
He employed himself ( in ) teaching English.
他从事英语教学工作.
Stewardesses on planes should be employed for their ability, not for their looks.
应该根据能力而不是容貌来录用飞机上的女服务员.