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Occupation

發佈時間: 2022/05/06

Occupation

俄烏戰爭已經10星期了,有報道指俄羅斯正在準備成立佔領地政府(occupation government),要求民眾以盧布交易,和談似乎遙遙無期。

看到名詞occupation,多會想到「職業、工作」。例如,Please state your name, address, telephone number and occupation on the first page.(請在首頁註明你的姓名、地址、電話號碼和職業。)His mother's occupation was a secret for many years.(他母親的職業多年來一直是個秘密。)

改變字尾,變成動詞occupy,則多會想到指「佔用、佔據」。例如,My work occupied almost all my time and I rarely took holidays.(我的工作幾乎佔據了我所有的時間,所以我很少放假。)

名詞occupation也可以解作「佔據」,即是軍隊或一群人進入並控制某個地方。例句︰This small city fell very quickly and has been under occupation for over a month.(這座小城很快就淪陷,已經被佔領1個多月了。)The Russian occupation of Ukraine has been met with widespread international condemnation.(俄羅斯佔領烏克蘭遭到國際社會廣泛譴責。)

(本欄逢周三、五刊登)

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