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[VERB 动词]雇用 If you
hire someone, you employ them or pay them to do a particular job for you.
Sixteen of the contestants have hired lawyers and are suing the organisers...
有16名参赛者已经请了律师，正在起诉主办方。
The rest of the staff have been hired on short-term contracts...
其余的工作人员签的是短期雇用合同。
He will be in charge of all hiring and firing at PHA.
他将负责公共房产管理局所有人员的雇用和解聘事务。
...the mystery assassin (who turned out to be a hired killer).
神秘刺客（最终被证实是一名雇用杀手）
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[VERB 动词]（短期）租用 If you
hire something, you pay money to the owner so that you can use it for a period of time.
[V n]
[V-ed]
[mainly BRIT 主英]
To hire a car you must produce a passport and a current driving licence...
租车须出示护照及有效驾照。
Her hired car was found abandoned at Beachy Head.
她那辆租来的车被发现遗弃在比奇角。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 rent
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]租赁（业）；出租（业务） You use
hire to refer to the activity or business of hiring something.
[usu n N]
[mainly BRIT 主英]
They booked our hotel, and organised car hire...
他们为我们订好了旅馆并安排了租车事宜。
Hire of skis, boots and clothing, is all available.
滑雪板、滑雪靴和滑雪服皆有出租。
...a day's outing by hire car to the southern coast of Crete.
赴克里特南部海滨租车一日游
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 rental
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[PHRASE 短语]供出租；待租 If something is
for hire, it is available for you to hire.
[usu v-link PHR]
[mainly BRIT 主英]
Fishing tackle is available for hire.
有钓具可供出租。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 for rent
Usage Note :
Do not confuse hire, rent, and let. In British English, if you pay a sum of money to use something for a short time, you say that you hire it. In American English, it is more common to say that you rent it. He was unable to hire another car... He rented a car for the weekend. If you make a series of payments to use something for a long time, you say that you rent it. ...the apartment he had rented... He rented a TV. You can say that you rent a house or room to someone when they pay you money to live there. We rented our house to an American professor. You can also say that you let a house or room to someone. They were letting a room to a school teacher.
不要混淆hire, rent和let。表示短期租用某物时，英国英语用hire，而美国英语则更常用rent。如，He was unable to hire another car（他没钱再多租一辆车了），He rented a car for the weekend（他租了辆车度周末）。表示长期租用某物并分期支付费用时，要用rent，如，the apartment he had rented（他租住的公寓），He rented a TV（他租了台电视机）。也可以用rent表示将房子或房间租给别人住并收取租金，如，We rented our house to an American professor（我们把房子租给了一位美国教授）。出租房子或房间也可用let，如，They were letting a room to a school teacher（他们把一个房间租给了一名老师）。