形容词（指厕所等）有人用的; 已订婚的; （指电话）占线的; 忙碌的
动词与某人订婚; 保证，约定; 从事( engage的过去式和过去分词); 吸引或引起（注意、兴趣等）
形容词
1. My brother is engaged to Anne, they will be married next year.
我弟弟和安妮订婚了，他们将于明年结婚。
2. We are engaged in compiling a dictionary.
我们正忙于编一本字典。
3. Edward and I are engaged.
爱德华和我订了婚。
4. The number is engaged.
该电话正在讲话中。
5. Bill is engaged to Betty.
比尔和蓓蒂订了婚。
Joe's Date-(乔的约会)
A：And then we went to a dance after dinner, and after the third dance she tells me that she's practically engaged to some G.I. who's overseas.
那样，晚饭后我们去跳舞，跳完第三只舞她告诉我，其实她已经同一位海外的大兵订婚了。
B：So?
这没什么。
A：What do you mean by "so"? You don't accept dates if you're practically engaged.
你说"这没什么"是什么意思？既然你已订婚，就不应再接受约会。
B：Why not? You only asked her for a date, not for her hand in marriage.There's nothing wrong in going out with a friend from the office.
为什么不可以？你只不过是请她赴约会，又不是向她求婚。同办公室的一位朋友出去玩玩并没有什么不对。
A：I know, but it makes me mad.
我知道，不过这使我很恼火。
B：They're all engaged, and they never tell you before you ask them out.
她们都订婚了，而如果你不问她们，她们从不告诉你。
1. 占线的：energytransformation 能量变换 | engaged 占线的 | engagedline 占线
2. 忙碌的：engaged with 接洽 | engaged 忙碌的 | engagement ring 订婚戒指
3. 被接合的：engage 接合 | engaged 被接合的 | engaged 被接合的被接合约
4. 被接合约：engaged 被接合的被接合约 | engaged 被接合约 | engagedwheel 从动轮
5. engaged：eng; 接通
1. 从事…的;忙于…的
Someone who is engaged in or engaged on a particular activity is doing that thing.
e.g. They found the three engaged in target practice.
他们发现那3个人在练习打靶。
e.g. ...the various projects he was engaged on.
他参与的各种项目
2. 订婚的
When two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry each other.
e.g. We got engaged on my eighteenth birthday...
在我18岁生日那天我们订婚了。
e.g. He was engaged to Miss Julia Maria Boardman.
他和朱莉娅·玛丽亚·博德曼小姐订婚了。
3. engaged的翻译
3. （电话）占线的
If a telephone or a telephone line is engaged, it is already being used by someone else so that you are unable to speak to the person you are phoning.
e.g. The line is engaged...
电话占线。
e.g. We tried to call you back but you were engaged.
我们试着给你回电，但是你正在通话中。
4. （公共厕所）被占用的，使用中的
If a public toilet is engaged, it is already being used by someone else.
1. The measures specify punishments for officials personally engaged in business operations and for the spouses or offspring of officials who run businesses.
2. Many of them are engaged in overseas service outsourcing business, especially in software and animation.
3. If the refurbishing act is not engaged in criminal activity to a crime, it should be prevented using administrative or civil law tools.
4. Both countries are engaged in close economic and trade cooperation, with their interdependence increasing day by day.
5. And the line was always engaged if anyone tried to call back.
6. engaged的意思
6. Posner said on Wednesday at the State Department briefing that both sides were engaged in the talks " frankly and candidly ".
7. Overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies are also engaged in the competition to capture tourism income from the Chinese market.
8. The modern world creates a large class of people engaged in sedentary labor who need physical activity as a diversion.
9. It also acquired 38 per cent interest in Beijing Municipal Administration & Communications Card Co, which is engaged in operation of the contactless card payment system in Beijing.
10. It is engaged in providing remote and mobile cardiovascular disease diagnosis services for community clinics and rural healthcare centers.
adj
1. engaged的解释
1. having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
e.g. she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities
deeply engaged in conversation
Synonym: occupied
2. engaged
2. built against or attached to a wall
e.g. engaged columns
3. engaged
3. having services contracted for
e.g. the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick
4. (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
e.g. the gears are engaged
meshed gears
intermeshed twin rotors
Synonym: meshed intermeshed
5. involved in military hostilities
e.g. the desperately engaged ships continued the fight
6. (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)
e.g. her line is busy
receptionists' telephones are always engaged
the lavatory is in use
kept getting a busy signal
Synonym: busy in use(p)
7. engaged
7. reserved in advance
Synonym: booked set-aside(p)