occupy
英 ['?kj?pa?]
美['ɑkjupa?]
- vt. 占據(jù)，占領(lǐng)；居住；使忙碌
英英釋意
- 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"
