occupy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 占, 占用, 占领; 使忙碌, 使从事，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, if, at this moment, the Papuans should occupy the platform, I do not see how you could prevent them from entering."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "The immortality of the soul on your wedding day!Hadn't you got anything better to occupy your mind?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The constable, taking warning by this desperate attack, and thinking perhaps that it would be more satisfactory to the ends of justice if the prisoner were taken before a magistrate, whole, rather than in small pieces, led him back to the hackney-coach without more ado, and moreover insisted on Miss Brass becoming an outside passenger; to which proposal the charming creature, after a little angry discussion, yielded her consent; and so took her brother Sampson's place upon the box: Mr Brass with some reluctance agreeing to occupy her seat inside.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She wished to remain in the apartment, but the landlord would not permit a single woman to occupy it, and she returned to her aunt.
-- Or I will work on my picture, which will, evidently, never be finished, for I had no business to occupy myself with such trifles.
-- The substance of this view was that the greatest welfare of all men, without exception--young, old, students, generals, educated and uneducated--consisted in associating with attractive women, and that therefore all men, while pretending to occupy themselves with other business, in reality desire nothing else.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It had been originally meant that the captain, Mr. Arrow, Hunter, Joyce, the doctor, and the squire were to occupy these six berths.
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