employed

1. VERB 雇用
   If a person or company employs you, they pay you to work for them.
   1. The company employs 18 staff...
      公司雇用了18名员工。
   2. 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。
   3. The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany.
      据政府统计，西德当时的就业人数为2,760万人。
2. VERB 使用;采用
   If you employ certain methods, materials, or expressions, you use them.
   1. 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。
   2. ...the vocabulary that she employs.
      她使用的词汇
   3. ...the approaches and methods employed in the study.
      研究中使用的思路和方法
3. VERB 利用，花费（时间）
   If your time is employed in doing something, you are using the time you have to do that thing.
   1. 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。
   2. 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。
4. PHRASE 受雇于
   If you are in the employ of someone or something, you work for them.
   1. Others hinted that he was in the employ of the KGB...
      其他人暗示他受雇于克格勃。
   2. 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. Many Bangladeshis were employed in the construction or fishing industries.
   许多孟加拉国人都从事建筑业或渔业。
2. The tactics employed can range from overt bullying to subtle emotional blackmail.
   从公然威吓到微妙的情感胁迫，各种战术都用上了。
3. The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers.
   象牙行业的从业牙雕师约有一千名。
4. Many graduates are employed in the electronics and computing industries.
   很多毕业生就职于电子和计算机行业。
5. He was employed by them for eighteen years.
   他为他们工作了18年。
6. 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。
7. The government counted 27,600,000 employed persons in West Germany.
   据政府统计，西德当时的就业人数为2,760万人。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. The farm employed a tractor driver and two general labourers.
    农场雇用了一名拖拉机手和两名杂工。
11. The Central Intelligence Agency employed a goodly number of expert professionals in this particular field
    中央情报局雇用了一大批这一领域的顶尖专业人才。
12. They had employed heavies to evict shop squatters from neighbouring sites.
    他们雇了一些彪形大汉，将附近私自占点的商贩都赶走了。
13. At its height Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people
    布莱奇利园的雇员数在巅峰时期曾达1.2万人。
14. Many are employed in the prison's wood and metalwork factories.
    许多人受雇于监狱的木材和金属加工厂。
15. Unemployed Queenslanders were victims of personal crime twice as often as employed people.
    在昆士兰，失业人群沦为个人犯罪受害者的可能性比就业人群高一倍。
16. He employed a scorched-earth policy, destroying villages and burning crops.
    他采取了焦土政策，摧毁了村庄，烧掉了庄稼。
17. The methods employed are old-fashioned and uneconomical
    采用的方法很老套，没什么效益。
18. How long have you been employed at this job?
    你受雇做这个工作有多久了？
19. 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。
20. The standardized fittings can be employed universally.
    标准化零件可以通用。
21. Pity he's employed in a job not in his line.
    可惜他所学非所用。
22. It is a pity that such an ability as him should be employed about such trifling matters.
    真可惜，像他这样有才能的人竟然被用来干这类琐事。
23. That implement was employed for that purpose.
    那件工具是为那个目的使用的。
24. He was employed to chuck out any troublemakers.
    他受雇把捣乱者赶走。
25. Large numbers of female workers are employed at the lowest rates of pay.
    大批女工以最低工资受雇。
26. She is employed as an auxiliary nurse.
    她受雇做助理护士。
27. Many remedies were employed by the physicians for his sickness, but all were of no avail.
    对他的病医生们用了许多办法，但都无济于事。
28. All available means have been employed.
    一切可用的办法都用上了。
29. She employed all her free time in sewing.
    她把所有空闲时间都拿来做针线活。
30. That farmer employed many farm labourers.
    那个农场主雇用了很多农工。

adj

1. having your services engaged for
   1. most of our graduates are employed

2. put to use