1、employ
雇用
The company employs 18 staff.
公司雇用了18名員工。
More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.
3,000余名當地人受雇于旅游業。
使用;采用
The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.
警方目前即將采取的策略明顯很強硬。
the vocabulary that she employs.
她使用的詞匯
利用,花費(時間)
Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters.
你可以有效地利用時間處理一些專業問題。
The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.
記者們最好花時間向我們說明為什么訴訟費高得驚人。
2、comparative
(狀態)相對的,比較而言的
those who manage to reach the comparative safety of Fendel.
達到“芬司匹利”藥品相對安全標準的那些藥
The task was accomplished with comparative ease.
相對而言,任務完成得比較輕松。
(研究)比較的
a comparative study of the dietary practices of people from various regions of India.
對印度各地區的人飲食習慣的比較研究
a professor of English and comparative literature.
研究英語和比較文學的教授