0 to have someone work or do a job for you and pay them for it -- 雇用
Can't we employ someone as an assistant to help with all this paperwork? 我们不可以雇一位助理来协助处理这些文书工作吗?
[ + to infinitive ] We've employed a market researcher to find out what people really want from a cable TV system. 我们已经雇用了一位市场调研员来调查人们到底想通过有线电视系统看到什么样的节目。
More people are now employed in service industries than in manufacturing. 现在服务业的就业人数要多于制造业。
1 to use something -- 使用;利用
Sophisticated statistical analysis was employed to obtain these results. 利用尖端的统计分析技术得到了这些结果。
3 to be working for someone -- 受雇于…;为…工作
We need to employ more supervisory staff.
The number of people employed by the company has risen from 25 to 200 in three years.
The problem with employing people who are overqualified for the job is that they often don't stay in it for long.
The bivariate twin method can in principle be employed to explore all these alternatives.
In the present study, we employed two traditional scales of hypochondriasis.
In relation to the first axis, a strong tendency has been for music to be employed more frequently the 'lighter' the topic and/or treatment.