及物动词
1. 居住，使用（建筑物或某地）
The people who occupy a building or a place are the people who live or work there.
2. 占用，使用（房间、座位等）
If a room or something such as a seat is occupied, someone is using it, so that it is not available for anyone else.
3. 占领；占据；侵占
If a group of people or an army occupies a place or country, they move into it, using force in order to gain control of it.
4. 担任（…职务）；居于（…地位）
If someone or something occupies a particular place in a system, process, or plan, they have that place.
5. 使忙碌；使全神贯注
If something occupies you, or if you occupy yourself, your time, or your mind with it, you are busy doing that thing or thinking about it.
1. consume all of one's attention or time
e.g. Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely
2. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
e.g. Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939
Synonym: invade
3. require (time or space)
e.g. It took three hours to get to work this morning
This event occupied a very short time
Synonym: takeuse up
4. assume, as of positions or roles
e.g. She took the job as director of development
he occupies the position of manager
the young prince will soon occupy the throne
Synonym: filltake
5. keep busy with
e.g. She busies herself with her butterfly collection
Synonym: busy
6. live (in a certain place)
e.g. She resides in Princeton
he occupies two rooms on the top floor
7. occupy the whole of
e.g. The liquid fills the container
Synonym: fill
8. be on the mind of
e.g. I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift