Picture a space with someone already in it: the seat has a coat on it, the door says so, the room is taken. Nobody else can move in until they move out. English then applies that same 'already taken, not available' picture to a person's time and attention, and to a country held by another army.
可以想成：一個位子已經有人在了——椅背上掛著外套、廁所門上顯示紅色、房間已經有人住。在他離開之前，別人進不來。英文接著把這個「已經被佔住、空不出來」的畫面，套到一個人的時間和注意力上，也套到被外國軍隊控制的土地上。
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原始詞典資料5 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。
occupiedadj/ˈɒkjʊpaɪd/
- 1
Reserved; engaged.
- The stall on the left is occupied.
- 2
Busy; unavailable.
- She is occupied at the moment.
- 3
Subjugated; under the control of a foreign (usually military) presence.
- My father travelled to occupied Japan in December 1945.
- As he creeps towards the main road, someone, another occupied former human, pokes their head around the corner, then calls to others in the strange language, pointing him out. Wheeler stops in his tracks. In another moment, ten or eleven non-people are advancing on him from the road. Two of them are carrying something with them, a limp, badly broken human— a normal human, Wheeler realises with some shock, like him.
occupiedintj/ˈɒkjʊpaɪd/
- 1
Used to communicate that a toilet is unavailable.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。