1、employ

雇用

The company employs 18 staff.

公司雇用了18名员工。

More than 3,000 local workers are employed in the tourism industry.

3,000余名当地人受雇于旅游业。

使用;采用

The tactics the police are now to employ are definitely uncompromising.

警方目前即将采取的策略明显很强硬。

the vocabulary that she employs.

她使用的词汇

利用，花费（时间）

Your time could be usefully employed in attending to professional matters.

你可以有效地利用时间处理一些专业问题。

The journalists would be much better employed in trying to explain to us how the astronomical legal costs of the cases can be justified.

记者们最好花时间向我们说明为什么诉讼费高得惊人。

2、comparative

(状态)相对的，比较而言的

those who manage to reach the comparative safety of Fendel.

达到“芬司匹利”药品相对安全标准的那些药

The task was accomplished with comparative ease.

相对而言，任务完成得比较轻松。

(研究)比较的

a comparative study of the dietary practices of people from various regions of India.

对印度各地区的人饮食习惯的比较研究

a professor of English and comparative literature.

研究英语和比较文学的教授