engage现在分词

1. 保证，担保
2. 参加，卷入
3. （使）从事，（使）忙于
4. （使）订婚
5. 答应，允诺，约定
6. 吸引住（注意力、兴趣）
7. 占用
8. （与...）交战，与（某人）开战，交手，进攻
9. 预订
10. 束缚，约束
11. 雇用，聘用
12. 接合，（使）啮合
13. 与…建立密切关系
14. 尽力理解

1. “誓约”（美国制造的扫雷舰）

1. vt. 吸引,占用 attract; catch and hold attention
2. vt. & vi. (使)从事于,(使)忙于 take part in; busy oneself with
3. vt. 雇,聘 hire; employ; get the right to use or occupy; reserve
4. vt. 使订婚 be bound by a promise to marry
5. vt. & vi. 允诺; 保证 promise; guarantee

1.参与;从事
If youengage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.

e.g. I have never engaged in the drug trade...
我从未参与过毒品交易。
e.g. You canengage in croquet on the south lawn.
你可以参加南边草坪上的槌球游戏。

2.吸引（人）;引起（注意、兴趣）
If somethingengages you or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it.

e.g. They never learned skills toengage the attention of the others.
他们从未学过吸引他人注意的技巧。

3.使参与，使参加（谈话）
If youengage someonein conversation, you have a conversation with them.

e.g. They tried toengage him in conversation...
他们试图跟他交谈。
e.g. We want toengage recognized leaders in discussion.
我们想和公认的领袖们进行讨论。

4.适应；（与…）建立密切关系
If youengage with something orwith a group of people, you get involved with that thing or group and feel that you are connected with it or have real contact with it.

engage什么意思

e.g. She found it hard toengage with office life...
她发现很难适应办公室生活。
e.g. She had vowed to go out of her way toengage with the Irish people at local community level.
她已经发誓要努力和当地的爱尔兰人建立关系。

5.任命;聘用;雇用
If youengage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.

engage

e.g. We engaged the services of a recognised engineer...
我们雇用了一个公认的杰出工程师。
e.g. He had been able toengage some staff.
他已经能够雇用一些员工。

6.（使）啮合;（使）咬合
When a part of a machine or other mechanismengages or when youengage it, it moves into a position where it fits into something else.

e.g. Press the lever until you hear the catchengage.
压下挡杆，直到听到挡挂好。
e.g. ...a lesson in how toengage the four-wheel drive.
如何使四轮驱动啮合的课程

7.与…交战
When a military forceengages the enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle.

e.g. It couldengage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.
从这可以避开敌方鱼雷区对敌人发动进攻。

8. see also: engaged;engaging

• engage a hall租下大厅
• engage a room预订房间

• engage at once立即开始
• engage actively积极从事
• engage busily忙于
• engage exclusively全力从事
• engage hotly热情地聘请
• engage ordinarily通常地聘请
• engage successfully成功地聘请

• engage as聘请为…
• engage sb as adviser聘请某人当顾问
• engage for应允,保证,约定
• engage for sb's good behaviour保证某人行为端正
• engage for sb's honesty保证某人诚实
• engage in从事,忙于,参加
• engage in animal husbandry从事畜牧业工作
• engage in a discussion进行讨论
• engage in making clothes忙于做衣服
• engage on着手,从事
• engage oneself to答应和某人订婚,约束(自己),担保
• engage with忙于接待〔应付〕,和(敌人)交战
• engage with the enemy和敌军交战
• engage with a visitor陪客人

• He would engage his soul for the reliability of all present.

  出自：A. Fraser

• ☆ 15世纪初期进入英语，直接源自古法语的en gage，意为在……承诺上；最初源自古日耳曼语的wadiare，意为承诺。