engage 的 2 个定义
en·gaged, en·gag·ing.
- to occupy the attention or efforts of: He engaged her in conversation.
- to secure for aid, employment, use, etc.; hire: to engage a worker; to engage a room.
- to attract and hold fast: The novel engaged her attention and interest.
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en·gaged, en·gag·ing.
- to occupy oneself; become involved: to engage in business or politics.
- to take employment: She engaged in her mother's business.
- to pledge one's word; assume an obligation: I was unwilling to engage on such terms.
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engage 近义词
hire for job, use
occupy oneself; engross
engage 的近义词 45 个
- arrest
- catch
- employ
- fascinate
- immerse
- interest
- involve
- join
- participate
- preoccupy
- undertake
- absorb
- allure
- bewitch
- busy
- captivate
- charm
- draw
- enamor
- enchant
- enthrall
- grip
- imbue
- monopolize
- partake
- practice
- soak
- tackle
- embark on
- enter into
- give a try
- give a whirl
- go for broke
- go in for
- go out for
- have a fling at
- have a go at
- have a shot at
- keep busy
- pitch in
- preengage
- set about
- take part
- tie up
- try on for size
engage 的反义词 33 个
promise to marry
start a fight; attack
interconnect; bring into operation
更多engage例句
- Crucially, the team engaged with critics rather than just dismissing them.
- Keep your knees bent, your feet flat on the floor, and your core engaged.
- People with good paying jobs like supervisors, managers, directors, and vice presidents do not normally engage in theft, drug deals, or gang activity.
- Some lawmakers feared that landlords would literally run tenants off of properties at gunpoint or engage other forms of extralegal self-help.
- Food isn’t the only thing we share, but eating is a particularly good example of a shared activity because it’s necessary, and because we engage in it throughout our lives—unlike playing with blocks, perhaps.
- Then we all have to do our part to engage the officers and our community, and hold everyone accountable in the process.
- The Millennial Action Project (MAP) seeks to engage young people in politics and give them more of a voice in governing.
- Not that he ever planned to engage in the controversy directly.
- Cook walked more slowly than most, stopping to engage with passersby who expressed their own frustration and support.
- Such messages are unlikely to be beloved of secularists who prefer to scoff at the religious rather than engage with them.
- He continued its sale, however, as a kingly monopoly, allowing only those to engage in it who paid him for the privilege.
- We have other things to engage us now, but I sometimes think all is not gain that the march of progress brings.
- I only engage that the engine shall be equal to a B. and Watt's 72-inch single, but it will be equal to a double 72-inch cylinder.
- A ship will sail for the South Sea fishery in about five weeks, and will engage to take the whole of the engines.
- In the instructions that may be given to Uville, it shall be stipulated on what terms he may engage one or two English workmen.