engaged

释义

adj.（指厕所等）有人用的; 已订婚的; （指电话）占线的; 忙碌的v.与某人订婚; 保证，约定; 从事( engage的过去式和过去分词); 吸引或引起（注意、兴趣等）

实用场景例句

The trio was spotted engaged in sharpening their shooting skills.

他们看到这三个人正专注于提高射击技巧。

金山词霸

Engaged in a multitude of projects, he demonstrated his leadership.

他投身于众多项目，展现了自己的领导力。

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He got engaged to me on my eighteenth birthday.

他在我18岁生日那天和我订婚了。

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He was engaged to Julia Maria Boardman.

他与朱莉娅·玛丽亚·博德曼订了婚。

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The line is engaged as someone else is using it.

电话线路正忙，因为其他人在使用中。

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The call-back effort failed because your phone was engaged.

回拨尝试未能成功，因为您的电话正忙。

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She's engaged to a doctor.

她与一位医生订了婚。

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They were engaged in a heated debate.

他们正激烈地辩论着。

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I can't attend the meeting on Friday─I'm otherwise engaged (= I have already planned another activity).

我星期五不能参加会议——我另有安排。

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He is currently engaged in writing his third screenplay.

他正在忙于撰写他的第三部剧本。

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They are engaged in discussions with the local authorities.

他们正忙着与地方当局讨论。

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The phone line was engaged when I tried to call.

我打电话时线路正忙。

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Busy with a phone call

I called this morning but you were engaged (= on another call).

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The meeting is postponed─the room's engaged.

会议延期了——房间被占用了。

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an engaged teacher

一位已订婚的老师

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When did they get engaged?

他们什么时候订的婚？

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They are engaged in a serious conversation about their future.

他们正在进行一场关于未来的严肃谈话。

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He was engaged to my sister.

他和我妹妹订婚了.

《简明英汉词典》

They engaged a resident tutor.

他们聘用了一名住家的家庭教师.

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真题例句

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are "engaged" is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberati

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The study, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, found that those who engaged in crafts like knitting and crocheting had a diminished chance of developing mild cognitive disorder and memory loss.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Those who engaged in activities that were not intellectually challenging, either in a social group or alone, did not show such improvements.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

There are three dozen universities in the UK which are actively engaged in advanced research training and commercialisation work

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

It is engaged in product design.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

"What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto," Dehl explains. "That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more."

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Companies play a big role in creating a circular economy, in which value is generating less from extracting new resources and more from getting better use out of the resources we already have—but they must also get customers engaged in the process.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The exact type of stimulation that an individual uses is not as important as being intellectually engaged.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

The people who took photos enjoyed the experience significantly more, and said they were more engaged, than those who didn't.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The region is engaged in a multi-day earthquake-and-tsunami drill involving around 20, 000 people.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

The results: Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adolescents engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in s

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Thinking about what you would want to photograph also gets you more engaged.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant(除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The students benefiting most from college are those who are totally engaged in academic life, taking full advantage of the college's chances and resources.

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文

We need progressive policies that shape collective action and rein in polluting businesses, alongside engaged citizens pushing for change.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective

1. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged;

"she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"

"deeply engaged in conversation"

2. involved in military hostilities;

"the desperately engaged ships continued the fight"

3. reserved in advance

4. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line);

"her line is busy"

"receptionists' telephones are always engaged"

"the lavatory is in use"

"kept getting a busy signal"

5. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting;

"the gears are engaged"

"meshed gears"

"intermeshed twin rotors"

6. having services contracted for;

"the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick"

7. built against or attached to a wall;

"engaged columns"

8. pledged to be married;

"the engaged couple"