| 词组 | occupy |
| 释义 | occupy When occupy is used with a preposition, with appears most frequently: • I hadn't really thought about it, so occupied had I been with all the arrangements —Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt, 1969 • He was occupied with turning human actions into poetry —T. S. Eliot, "Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca," in Selected Essays, 1932 • ... you had to occupy yourself with that rudimentary light show, the NBC test pattern —Jan Hoden-field, Rolling Stone, 13 May 1971 • ... the irony of thanking a mother for occupying herself with the details of her own daughter's wedding —Edith Wharton, The Old Maid, 1924 Occupy by is found almost as often: • He occupied himself by taking long walks —Green Peyton, San Antonio: City in the Sun, 1946 • The center of the house was occupied by a magnificent mahogany staircase —Robert Morss Lovett, All Our Years, 1948 Occupy also occurs with in: • ... she occupied herself in social-service work — John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1957 • They occupy themselves in showing that America started in the gutter —Percy Holmes Boynton, quoted in Charles I. Glicksberg, American Literary Criticism 1900-1950, 1951 |
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