occupy
verb- 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. 他们的时间完全被他们严格的训练制度所占据。
- 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.