英语词汇“engagement”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	engagement
释义	en·gage·ment \-jmənt\ noun (-s) 1. a. : the act of engaging or state of being engaged : a pledging or pledged state : involvement, attachment b. : betrothal 2. a. : something that engages (as an engrossing occupation, an obligation) < his engagements kept him very busy > b. : prepossession, bias : favorable attachment < religion, which is the chief engagement of our league — John Milton > 3. a. : a promise to be present at a specified time and place : appointment < a previous engagement > b. : employment especially by contract for a stated time < an engagement as leading lady > 4. engagements plural : pecuniary liabilities : obligations 5. : the act of crossing fencing blades in any of the eight positions 6. : the state of being in gear or in such contact that motion may be transmitted < one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part > 7. : the phase of parturition in which the fetal head passes into the pelvic canal 8. a. : hostile encounter between military forces < forces … reported small patrol engagements during the day — New York Times > b. : a duel or other single combat Synonyms: engagement, appointment, rendezvous, tryst, assignation, date can apply, in common, to an agreement or commitment to be in a specific place at a specific time for a specified purpose. engagement is the general term interchangeable in basic meaning with any of the rest < his engagement with the duke — F.M.Stenton > < an engagement with the doctor at 2 p.m. > < an engagement to meet secretly after dark > appointment applies chiefly to an engagement with someone, as a doctor or executive, who must apportion his time in order to meet all commitments < an appointment with the dentist > < an appointment to see the governor > < an appointment with fate > rendezvous, now commonly an agreed-upon meeting or meeting place, can still signify a pledge, often implicit, to meet someone or something usually at a specific place and time which honor makes inescapable < I have a rendezvous with Death — Alan Seeger > < this generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny — F.D.Roosevelt > tryst, now chiefly poetic, applies generally to a lovers' agreement to meet at a particular place or time < young women kept trysts with their beaux here — American Guide Series: North Carolina > An assignation is commonly a tryst but is usually illicit or clandestine < make assignations for them with ladies of the street — G.B.Shaw > date is interchangeable with but more current in speech than engagement, often suggesting a more casual agreement especially between young men and women < remembering suddenly he had a riding date with the major's wife at 12:30 — James Jones > < she has a date with a boy >
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