Engagement
[ɪn'geɪdʒm(ə)nt;en-] or [ɪn'ɡedʒmənt]
解释:
(noun.) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; 'the play had bookings throughout the summer'.
(noun.) the act of sharing in the activities of a group; 'the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities'.
(noun.) contact by fitting together; 'the engagement of the clutch'; 'the meshing of gears'.
加勒特录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.
(n.) The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.
(n.) That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of any office.
(n.) An action; a fight; a battle.
(n.) The state of being in gear; as, one part of a clutch is brought into engagement with the other part.
乔安妮手打
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Promise, stipulation, assurance, contract, pledge, obligation.[2]. Employment, occupation, business, AVOCATION, calling, vocation.[3]. Battle, conflict, combat, contest, action, fight, encounter, rencounter.
菲力克斯校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a business engagement, denotes dulness and worries in trade. For young people to dream that they are engaged, denotes that they will not be much admired. To dream of breaking an engagement, denotes a hasty, and an unwise action in some important matter or disappointments may follow.
布莱恩录入
娱乐性解释：
In war, a battle. In love, the salubrious calm that precedes the real hostilities.
伊莱扎录入
例句:
- I am also to take it as a matter of fact that the proposal to withdraw from the engagement came, in the first instance, from YOU? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He had even yielded to her wish for a long engagement, since she had found the one disarming answer to his plea for haste. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- In the spring of 1862 the Monitor met the Merrimac in engagement in Hampton Roads, and established the great value of the turret monitor. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Crittenden had a severe engagement with some of Hill's corps on his crossing the river, and lost heavily. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It was in those days rather a rare accomplishment, and led to her engagement with the orthodox Miss Pinkerton. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Unfortunately I have an engagement. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- At the conclusion of the engagement, a place had been found for the poor boy in a cart, and he had been brought back to Brussels. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I conceive a conditional engagement to be null and void, when the conditions are not fulfilled. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The sooner the engagement's off, the better. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It must have been from attachment only, that she could be led to form the engagement. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- During the day General Meade's advance had considerable fighting with the enemy's rear-guard, but was unable to bring on a general engagement. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Celia had become less afraid of saying things to Dorothea since this engagement: cleverness seemed to her more pitiable than ever. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Well, she has taken a sudden resolution to break the engagement. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Our total loss (not including Burnside's) in all these engagements amounted to 757 killed, 4,529 wounded and 330 missing. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Had Canby been in other engagements afterwards, he would, I have no doubt, have advanced without any fear arising from a sense of the responsibility. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Twice was his card found on the table, when they returned from their morning's engagements. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Ordinary people might have hesitated before setting aside their own engagements to suit the convenience of a stranger. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- A better army, man for man, probably never faced an enemy than the one commanded by General Taylor in the earliest two engagements of the Mexican war. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- At other times my engagements used to be with him to go over his business affairs at Menlo Park at night, if I was occupied in New York during the day. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- While I can have my mornings to myself, said she, it is enough--I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Sir Thomas, drawing back from intimacies in general, was particularly disinclined, at this time, for any engagements but in one quarter. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Sherman's loss in these last engagements in killed, wounded, and missing, was about sixteen hundred. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Harriet, necessarily drawn away by her engagements with the Martins, was less and less at Hartfield; which was not to be regretted. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- What engagements? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- All the engagements fought ought to have served to encourage the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
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