0 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it -- 僱用
More people are now employed in service industries than in manufacturing. 現在服務業的就業人數多於製造業。
[ + to infinitive ] We've employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system. 我們已經僱用了一位市場調查研究員來調查人們到底想透過有線電視系統看到甚麽樣的節目。
Can't we employ someone as an assistant to help with all this paperwork? 我們不可以僱一位助理來協助處理這些文書工作嗎？
1 to use something -- 使用；利用
Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results. 利用尖端的統計分析技術得到了這些結果。
3 to be working for someone -- 受僱於…；爲…工作
To see how metaphor is discursively employed in these texts, consider (3).
Services employed only 31 percent of the labor force in 1976.
A variety of techniques have been employed to describe this extra structure.
Such metapragmatic discourse construes differences of speech habit as emblematic of differences in identity, employing language to motivate differences in social identity.
However, ke9ilu is by far the most common discourse marker employed for this purpose (48 tokens).
Tags such as isn't it are also used, and the two methods are sometimes employed simultaneously.
Section 2 fixes some notations that will be employed later.
The term "force-closure" is still employed in the paper because it has been popularly used in the robotics community.
