engagement
美 [?n?ɡe?d?m?nt] 
英 [?n'ɡe?d?m?nt]
詞形變化
復數：engagements 同義詞
英漢雙解
婚前before marriage
1. | [c] 訂婚；訂婚期間an agreement to marry sb; the period during which two people are engaged |
| Their engagement was announced in the local paper. 他們訂婚的消息已在當地報紙上公布。 |
| She has broken off her engagement to Charles. 她已解除同查爾斯的婚約。 |
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| a long/short engagement 長╱短婚約期 |
約定arrangement to do sth
2. | [c] （尤指正式的或與工作有關的）約定，約會，預約an arrangement to do sth at a particular time, especially sth official or sth connected with your job |
| an engagement book/diary 預約簿╱日志 |
| He has a number of social engagements next week. 他下周有幾次社交約會。 |
| It was her first official engagement . 那是她第一次正式約會。 |
| I had to refuse because of a prior engagement . 我因為已經有預約只好拒絕了。 |
戰斗fighting
3. | [c][u] 戰斗；交戰fighting between two armies, etc. |
| The general tried to avoid an engagement with the enemy. 將軍竭力避免與敵軍交火。 |
聯系being involved
4. | [u] ~ (with sb/sth) （與…的）密切關系；（對…的）了解being involved with sb/sth in an attempt to understand them/it |
| Her views are based on years of engagement with the problems of the inner city. 她的觀點是以多年對內城區問題的了解為基礎的。 |
雇用employment
5. | [u][c] 雇用；聘用an arrangement to employ sb; the process of employing sb |
| The terms of engagement are to be agreed in writing. 聘用條款應有書面協議。 |
英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
"Since I couldn't find the right engagement ring, " he said, "this will have to do, " and he firmly stamped my hand.
他說：“既然我找不到合適的訂婚戒指，就用這了”，然后，在我手上用力蓋上。
Engagement in a life of tiddlywinks does not rise to the level of a meaningful life, no matter how gripped one might be by the game.
充斥著挑圓片游戲的人生并沒有上升到有意義的人生的高度，不管一個人因這個游戲可能會變得多么有影響力。
we seek to build upon a strong tradition of engagement by presidents and secretaries of state of both parties across many decades.
我們尋求發揚幾十年來兩黨歷屆總統和國務卿所開創的參與世界事務的深厚傳統。
To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement.
為了甩掉這個問題，他開始談論他們自己的計劃，他們的未來，以及韋蘭太太堅持要延長訂婚期的事。
Suppose it was the news of his engagement he had intended to tell her!
也許他找算告訴她的就是他要訂婚的消息呢！
Note: The following easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions were tested at a partner's site during a skill transfer engagement.
注意：按照技術轉移條款，以下簡單易用的逐步說明已經在一個合作伙伴的站點上經過了測試。
Urmat said he paid two sheep and a horse to his wife's family on his engagement, which were then sold to provide money for the celebration.
烏瑪特說，他訂婚時給了女方家里兩頭羊和一匹馬，用這些羊和馬賣掉后的錢拿來辦慶典。
At any given point during these times, my life might have looked seriously unbalanced. I would call it something else. . . full engagement.
在這段時間內的任何點看上去，我的生活的確非常失衡。我有另外一個詞稱呼這種狀態：滿檔。
Their engagement was to be a secret but the ring on her finger let the cat out of the ba g.
他們倆訂婚原本想保密的，可是她手指上的戒指卻泄露了秘密。
Were this an ongoing ruse, we would not be able to explain this to you due to the Rules of Engagement.
這是正在進行的一種策略，由于“接觸法則”的緣故，我們不能向你們解釋這個。
It was the beginning of my deep engagement in the long, emotional, complicated search for peace in Northern Ireland.
這是我為北愛爾蘭謀求和平的努力的開端。在這一漫長的過程中，我滿懷激情，采取了很多復雜的手段。
U. S. officials said the move culminates months of growing diplomatic engagement between the U. S. and Syria.
美國官員說，此舉將數月來美國和敘利亞之間不斷增加的外交接觸推向了高潮。
Although the two are calling it a "friendship ring, " buzz[2] is building that it is, in fact, an engagement ring.
盡管兩人將這枚鉆戒稱為“友誼戒指”，但輿論界認為，事實上那就是定婚戒指。
The Bank Group's new strategy for engagement with IBRD partners contains a range of proposals designed to help us meet their expectations.
世行集團與IBRD借款國合作的新戰略包括一系列旨在幫助我們滿足他們期望的提案。
A. Jim Nachtwey's image made me realize that I needed to have some sort of intellectual engagement with my pictures.
詹姆斯.納希微的作品使我意識到我需要在我的作品中加入某種精神的力量。
At the time, she said it would mean a lengthy engagement because no wedding date had been discussed.
她當時說，訂婚的時間會很長，因為她和威廉王子還沒有討論過正式婚禮的日期。
Emily desperately searched all over the place for her lost engagement ring. In her words, she has left no stone unturned in her house.
艾米麗拼命地到處尋找她丟失的訂婚戒指，用她的話說，她家里的什么地方都找過了。
It's very nice of you to ask, but I have a previous engagement that evening, so I'm afraid I won't is able to come.
你的邀宴太棒了，但那個晚上下班事先已有約會，所以我恐怕不能來參加。
But the big imponderable is how much appetite there is on both sides of the Atlantic for real diplomatic engagement.
但是最大的不確定因素在于大西洋兩岸對進行實質性的外交接觸有多大興輯。
The result of that extensive review was to launch a policy of pragmatic engagement with Burma's leadership.
這次廣泛審議的結果是發起了與緬甸領導層進行接觸的務實政策。
It is a sign that she has no longer the regard for him, Is their engagement safe and suitable?
這說明她已不再關心他了。他們之間的婚約還合適，還靠得住嗎？
"When I first came to London, " said he, "I secured an engagement at one of your public institutions. "
“我初到倫敦的時候，”他說，“在你們一個公共機關里謀到一份差使。”
Long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not make sacrifices to it.
盡管訂婚時間已經不短而且盡人皆知，但是不能因此而犧牲她的幸福。
During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.
在她訂婚的日子里一個哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鮮花。
A long-standing engagement of Bertha and Miss Ley forced him to take leave of them in the afternoon.
伯莎和萊伊小姐有個很久以前預訂的約會，這迫使他在下午與他們道別。
We felicitated John on his engagement to marry.
我們祝賀約翰訂婚。
I am under an engagement to dine with Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson five days hence.
我已經約好在五天后到蒙斯圖特·詹金森太太家去赴宴。
Jane became ambivalent about her engagement to Tom as she realized she still cared so much about Mike.
（簡對于和湯姆的訂婚仍舊感到很矛盾，因為她發現她到現在還非常在意邁克。）
The engagement track was set out in May 2008 at a meeting I chaired in London. We all 6 countries made a very clear offer to Iran.
我曾經在倫敦主持了六國外長會議，在會議上我們談的就是“接觸”。
He said the 2006 Iraq Study Group's recommendation for more engagement with Iran has not been implemented.
蓋茨說，伊拉克研究小組2006年提出的與伊朗進行更多接觸的建議并沒有實施。
We've found that awareness is often higher with non-contextually targeted ads, but engagement and recall is higher with contextual ads.
我們發現與上下文無關的廣告被覺察到的機會更高，但是上下文相關的廣告有更高的關注率和回憶率。
Obama said the third part of the U. S. strategy is comprehensive American engagement across the region.
奧巴馬總統指出，美國的戰略方案的第三部分是同整個地區進行全面接觸。
"Senior leaders from both sides will need to talk further about this . . . That would be a second phase of our engagement, " she said.
“雙方的高級領導人將進行進一步的磋商……這會是簽訂合約的第二步”，她說。
Aw, let the engagement go. Come on. I can get rid of him. I want to have a good talk with you.
咳，別去赴什么約了。走吧。我可以把那個朋友甩開。我要和你好好地談一談。
she wrote to him and told him that she hated to be kept waiting and returned the engagement ring to the guy.
她覺得自己再也配不上他了，于是寫信告訴他自己不想再等了，并把戒指也退了回去。
Luckily for her mother, an engagement was swiftly drummed up and political disaster averted, but it was a close run thing.
對于她的媽媽而言，幸運的是，一場訂婚迅速被制造出來，從而避免了一場政治災難，但過程真是驚險。
Lying messengers were to be dispatched into every quarter of the city with apologies for your breach of engagement.
撒謊的信使被派遣到這座城市的每個角落，為你的違背諾言進行辯解。
Photography in interactive media is often a trigger for engagement and interaction.
照片往往能夠觸發用戶與網站建立聯系或者與其交互的渴望。
She did, however, agree to meet Senator Webb, suggesting she sees some merit in the American's new policy of engagement with her jailors.
然而，她同意會見參議員韋布，這表明她對看到了美國與緬甸交涉新政策的一些價值。
We do not know the answer, and the US, quite sensibly, is combining a policy of engagement with one of hedging.
對此，我們不得而知，而美國則相當明智地將接觸與防范政策結合起來。
Fischer revealed that she doesn't wear her multi-faceted diamond engagement ring to work -- for fear that it'll get stolen from her trailer.
菲舍爾可是非常寶貝她的訂婚鉆戒——從來不戴著它工作，怕拍戲間隙中有人會把它偷走。
And yet the two admired each other more than they admired any other living poets and corresponded with an unusual seriousness of engagement.
然而，兩人對彼此的傾慕超出了對任何一位在世詩人的欣賞，那份友誼刻骨銘心、與眾不同。
Culture must be monitored to understand the health and engagement of your organization.
文化必須進行監測，以了解組織的健康和參與程度。
Conversely, it is considered bad luck for a single woman to wear a ring on her engagement finger as it might curse her to be single forever.
相反，對一個單身女人來說，把一個戒指戴在無名指上，可能讓她一輩子單身。所以很不吉利。
The United States has made it a focus of our engagement abroad to help people to feed themselves.
美國已將幫助人們吃上飯作為在海外的工作中的一項重點。
Q: There has been a bit of talk that engagement hasn't worked, that we need to focus more on sanctions, on punishments.
問：一直有些輿論，說接觸并沒有奏效，我們需要更側重于制裁和懲罰。
China came out of its shell three decades ago due to vigorous engagement with, not lectures from, Washington and Brussels.
由于華盛頓和布魯塞爾提供強勁的融資擔保，才使使中國從三十年前的腐朽情形里走了出來。訓斥不能解決問題。
