hire1 /haɪə $ haɪr/ ●●● S2 W3 verb [transitiveT] 1 British EnglishBrEBORROW to pay money to borrow something for a short period of time 〔短期〕租用 SYN American English rent The best way to explore the island is to hire a car. 在该岛寻幽访胜的最好方式就是租用一辆汽车。
What does it cost to hire a boat for a week? 一艘小船租用一星期的费用是多少?
2 a) JOB/WORKto employ someone for a short time to do a particular job 〔短期〕雇用〔某人〕 Employers hire skilled people on fixed-term contracts. 雇主以签订固定期限的合同来雇用有技能的人。
hire somebody to do something A City lawyer has been hired to handle the case. 聘请了一位伦敦商业区的律师来处理这一案件。
b) JOB/WORK American EnglishAmE to employ someone 雇用,聘任 Businesses may only hire foreign workers where an American cannot be found. 在找不到美国人的情况下企业才可能雇用外国工人。
the power to hire and fire (=employ and dismiss people) 聘用和解雇的权力
3 hire something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE a) LENDto allow someone to borrow something for a short time in exchange for money 〔短期〕出租 to a little company that hires out boats to tourists 一家向游客出租小船的小公司
b) JOB/WORK hire yourself out to arrange to work for someone 〔去为别人〕打工;受雇 They were so poor they had to hire themselves out on the farms. 他们实在太穷,只得在农场打工。
hire to• We called technical support and reached a Florida office, a tech-support company that hires itself out to Compaq.• The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.• Her brother earned his living by hiring himself out to whoever needed his services on the island.
hire yourself out• We thought about hiring ourselves out as sort of bespectacled human twigs for water-divining purposes.• We called technical support and reached a Florida office, a tech-support company that hires itself out to Compaq.• Her brother earned his living by hiring himself out to whoever needed his services on the island.