| 单词 | engaged |
| 释义 | engaged (once / 84 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj 4adj 5adj 6adj Engaged means fully occupied or having your full attention. An engaged reader really focuses on the words and maybe even jots down questions or comments in the pages' margins. If you're busy or involved with something, you're engaged in it. A formal reply to an invitation to lunch might be, "I'm sorry, I'm otherwise engaged" — meaning you already have plans. Engaged often describes people who have committed to getting married. You can see this meaning in the word's origin, the French word engagier, meaning "to pledge." WORD FAMILYengaged: unengaged+/disengage: disengaged, disengagement, disengages, disengaging/disengagement: disengagements/engage: disengage, engaged, engagement, engages, engaging/engagement: engagements, non-engagement/engaging: engagingly USAGE EXAMPLES“The results are there: Daesh is in retreat and the battle of Mosul is engaged.” Time(Jan 02, 2017) This outstanding ability is widely implemented during one of the most neurologically challenging actions people are engaged with on a daily basis: driving. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Gallup regularly asks people if they are “engaged” at work, meaning involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their job. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1adj having one's attention or mind or energy engaged deeply engaged in conversation Syn occupied busy actively or fully engaged or occupied 2adj having services contracted for 2the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick Syn employed having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary adj (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) 3receptionists' telephones are always engaged Syn busy, in use occupied held or filled or in use adj (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting 4the gears are engaged Syn intermeshed, meshed geared equipped with or connected by gears or having gears engaged adj reserved in advance 5Syn booked, set-aside reserved set aside for the use of a particular person or party adj involved in military hostilities 6the desperately engaged ships continued the fight Syn involved connected by participation or association or use adj built against or attached to a wall engaged columns Syn connected joined or linked together |
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