Picture a space being taken up and held: someone is in the room, so the room is occupied. From that one picture the word spreads two ways — holding a physical place (a house, a country), and holding a stretch of your hours (your job, your hobby).
可以想成：一個空間被人佔住、而且一直佔著——有人在裡面，這個位子就是 occupied。這個畫面往兩邊長：一邊是佔住實體的地方（房子、城市、國家），一邊是佔住你的時間（工作、嗜好）。所以同一個字既能講軍隊佔領，也能講你的職業，中間的橋就是「什麼填滿了那個空間」。
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
occupationnoun/ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
- 1
An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
- With no particular appearance of regret Annesley Greatorex detached himself from the occupation of typing letters and came across to his employer's chair.
- 2
The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- Last year it was announced that electrification of L.M.R. main lines was to be speeded up and that it would be essential for the engineers to have the longest possible occupation of the lines involved; this would mean some retrenchment of passenger train services.
- 3
geopoliticsgovernmentmilitaryThe control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.
- The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.
- The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。