Employment

(noun.) the occupation for which you are paid; 'he is looking for employment'; 'a lot of people are out of work'.

(noun.) the act of giving someone a job.

(noun.) the state of being employed or having a job; 'they are looking for employment'; 'he was in the employ of the city'.

整理:韦尔登

• The first known application of the kind was made by Mr. Murdoch, an engineer in the employment of Messrs. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Foreign policy is the natural employment of courts and monarchies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A worthy employment for a young lady's mind! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• What, are you out of employment then? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• To earn his bread he sought and found employment on a railway locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was the unhappiness of a fine brain that seeks employment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His employment may, upon most occasions, be as constant as he pleases. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I have little doubt he would have preferred such an employment in his heart to all others. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was during the happy period of his employment in the factory that George had seen and married his wife. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Thirdly, the employment of the fulling-mill for thickening the cloth, instead of treading it in water. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Apart from debts and duns and all such drawbacks, I am not fit even for this employment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• First, This equality can take place only in those employments which are well known, and have been long established in the neighbourhood. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Taxes upon the profits of stock, in particular employments, can never affect the interest of money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In the inferior employments, the sweets of labour consist altogether in the recompence of labour. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• If the profit is less, mercantile employments will draw capital from the improvement of land. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But if women are to have the same employments as men, they must have the same education--they must be taught music and gymnastics, and the art of war. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• From eleven o'clock until luncheon, and from luncheon until dinner at six in the evening, the employments and amusements were various. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Inequalities arising from the nature of the employments themselves. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She had planned other employments for herself: a letter to Edith, a good piece of Dante, a visit to the Higginses. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Yet, although unhappy, he is not so utterly occupied by his own misery, but that he interests himself deeply in the employments of others. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• They have the same employments--the only difference between them is that the one sex is stronger and the other weaker. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And why are mean employments and manual arts a reproach? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The profits of agriculture, however, seem to have no superiority over those of other employments in any part of Europe. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Every year the demand for servants and labourers would, in all the different classes of employments, be less than it had been the year before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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