Two weeks were occupied in this perilous march, and two hundred men perished in the undertaking.

两周来都是这样艰难的行，有两百人在途中丧生。

More Americans now are occupied in offices and services than who toil on the factory floor.

更多的美国人现在被办公室及各种服务占据而非在工厂辛勤劳作。

More Chinese now are occupied in offices and services than who toil on the factory floor.

更多的中国人人现在被办公室及各种服务占据，而非在工厂辛勤劳作。

He was occupied in his cigar, and in holding back the pliant boughs.

专心致志地抽着雪茄， 收起柔顺的树枝。

Three-quarters of an hour were occupied in getting the cases to Jim's rooms.

把箱子送到吉姆的房间花了四分之三小时。

I'm occupied in preparing for the final exams; don't bother me!

我正忙着准备期末考试，别来打扰我！

I can only decline your invitation, because I am occupied in preparing for my final exam.

我只能拒绝你的，为我正忙着准备期末考试。

He was occupied in putting rusty nails into a bottle of ink, which he had obtained at the post office.

正忙着把生锈的子从邮局弄来的一瓶墨水里。

She spoke to him very quickly, without looking at him, because her eye was occupied in seeing if anybody was coming near the counter.

她很快就跟说话， 没有看，为她的眼睛正忙着看柜台附近是否有人。

She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort.

她正忙着编织。一只大猫端庄地坐在她脚边。简而言之，没有什么是想要完成家庭舒适的美丽理想。

More heads are occupied in inventing the most proper machinery for executing the work of each, and it is, therefore, more likely to be invented.

更多的头脑忙于发明最合适的机器来执行每个人的工作， 此更有可能被发明出来。

Large piles of brush lay scattered about the clearing, and a wary and aged squaw was occupied in firing as many as might serve to light the coming exhibition.

大堆灌木散落在空地上，一个警惕而年迈的印第安人正忙于射击，尽可能多地点燃即将到来的展览。

They employed the silence of experienced men who move carefully among new people. The Swede was especially silent. He seemed to be occupied in making secret judgments of each man in the room.

她们小心翼翼地在新来的人中穿行。瑞典人特别沉默，似乎忙于悄悄地为房间里的每个人下判断。

The company soon departed when luncheon was over, and the remainder of the day passed in quietness, the Bishop being occupied in his room at the vicarage with writing letters or a sermon.

午饭结束后，大家很快就离开了，这一天剩下的时间都在安静中度过，主教在牧师住宅的房间里写信或布道。

His first half-hour is occupied in trying to decide whether to wear his light suit with a cane and drab billycock, or his black tails with a chimney-pot hat and his new umbrella.

的前半个小时都在考虑是穿的浅色西装搭配手杖和单调的公鸡， 还是穿的黑色燕尾服搭配烟囱帽和的新雨伞。

No other tree seems so capable of adapting itself to earthquake taluses, and many of these rough boulder-slopes are occupied by it almost exclusively, especially in yosemite gorges moistened by the spray of waterfalls.

似乎没有其树木能够如此适应地震的崩塌，许多粗糙的巨石斜坡几乎完全被它占据，尤其是在被瀑布喷水润湿的优胜美地峡谷中。

The other salesmen of the department were occupied in piling up pieces of the Paris Delight under Robineau's orders; whilst Bouthemont, in full consultation with a thin young woman, seemed to be taking an important order.

该部门的其推销员正忙于按照罗比诺的命令堆积巴黎美食。而 Bouthemont 正在与一位瘦弱的年轻女子充分商量，似乎正在接受一项重要的命令。

The city chosen for their conference was Tehran, the capital of Iran which had been occupied by the British and Soviets in a joint operation in 1941 to prevent the country's rich oil fields falling under Nazi control.

们选择的会议城市是伊朗首都德黑兰，1941 年英国和苏联在一次联合行动中占领了该国， 以防止该国丰富的油田落入纳粹的控制之下。

As I past by a low parlour, whose windows looked into the Garden, through the door which stood half open I observed Agnes seated at a Table. She was occupied in drawing, and several unfinished sketches were scattered round her.

当我经过一个低矮的客厅时，它的窗户正对着花园，透过半开的门，我看到艾格尼丝坐在一张桌子旁。她正忙着画画，几张未完成的素描散落在她身边。