engagement
美 [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt] 
英 [ɪn'ɡeɪdʒmənt]
词形变化
复数：engagements 同义词
英汉双解
婚前before marriage
1. | [c] 订婚；订婚期间an agreement to marry sb; the period during which two people are engaged |
| Their engagement was announced in the local paper. 他们订婚的消息已在当地报纸上公布。 |
| She has broken off her engagement to Charles. 她已解除同查尔斯的婚约。 |
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| a long/short engagement 长╱短婚约期 |
约定arrangement to do sth
2. | [c] （尤指正式的或与工作有关的）约定，约会，预约an arrangement to do sth at a particular time, especially sth official or sth connected with your job |
| an engagement book/diary 预约簿╱日志 |
| He has a number of social engagements next week. 他下周有几次社交约会。 |
| It was her first official engagement . 那是她第一次正式约会。 |
| I had to refuse because of a prior engagement . 我因为已经有预约只好拒绝了。 |
战斗fighting
3. | [c][u] 战斗；交战fighting between two armies, etc. |
| The general tried to avoid an engagement with the enemy. 将军竭力避免与敌军交火。 |
联系being involved
4. | [u] ~ (with sb/sth) （与…的）密切关系；（对…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. 她的观点是以多年对内城区问题的了解为基础的。 |
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. 聘用条款应有书面协议。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
"Since I couldn't find the right engagement ring, " he said, "this will have to do, " and he firmly stamped my hand.
他说：“既然我找不到合适的订婚戒指，就用这了”，然后，在我手上用力盖上。
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.
充斥着挑圆片游戏的人生并没有上升到有意义的人生的高度，不管一个人因这个游戏可能会变得多么有影响力。
we seek to build upon a strong tradition of engagement by presidents and secretaries of state of both parties across many decades.
我们寻求发扬几十年来两党历届总统和国务卿所开创的参与世界事务的深厚传统。
To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement.
为了甩掉这个问题，他开始谈论他们自己的计划，他们的未来，以及韦兰太太坚持要延长订婚期的事。
Suppose it was the news of his engagement he had intended to tell her!
也许他找算告诉她的就是他要订婚的消息呢！
Note: The following easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions were tested at a partner's site during a skill transfer engagement.
注意：按照技术转移条款，以下简单易用的逐步说明已经在一个合作伙伴的站点上经过了测试。
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.
乌玛特说，他订婚时给了女方家里两头羊和一匹马，用这些羊和马卖掉后的钱拿来办庆典。
At any given point during these times, my life might have looked seriously unbalanced. I would call it something else. . . full engagement.
在这段时间内的任何点看上去，我的生活的确非常失衡。我有另外一个词称呼这种状态：满档。
Their engagement was to be a secret but the ring on her finger let the cat out of the ba g.
他们俩订婚原本想保密的，可是她手指上的戒指却泄露了秘密。
Were this an ongoing ruse, we would not be able to explain this to you due to the Rules of Engagement.
这是正在进行的一种策略，由于“接触法则”的缘故，我们不能向你们解释这个。
It was the beginning of my deep engagement in the long, emotional, complicated search for peace in Northern Ireland.
这是我为北爱尔兰谋求和平的努力的开端。在这一漫长的过程中，我满怀激情，采取了很多复杂的手段。
U. S. officials said the move culminates months of growing diplomatic engagement between the U. S. and Syria.
美国官员说，此举将数月来美国和叙利亚之间不断增加的外交接触推向了高潮。
Although the two are calling it a "friendship ring, " buzz[2] is building that it is, in fact, an engagement ring.
尽管两人将这枚钻戒称为“友谊戒指”，但舆论界认为，事实上那就是定婚戒指。
The Bank Group's new strategy for engagement with IBRD partners contains a range of proposals designed to help us meet their expectations.
世行集团与IBRD借款国合作的新战略包括一系列旨在帮助我们满足他们期望的提案。
A. Jim Nachtwey's image made me realize that I needed to have some sort of intellectual engagement with my pictures.
詹姆斯.纳希微的作品使我意识到我需要在我的作品中加入某种精神的力量。
At the time, she said it would mean a lengthy engagement because no wedding date had been discussed.
她当时说，订婚的时间会很长，因为她和威廉王子还没有讨论过正式婚礼的日期。
Emily desperately searched all over the place for her lost engagement ring. In her words, she has left no stone unturned in her house.
艾米丽拼命地到处寻找她丢失的订婚戒指，用她的话说，她家里的什么地方都找过了。
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，但那个晚上下班事先已有约会，所以我恐怕不能来参加。
But the big imponderable is how much appetite there is on both sides of the Atlantic for real diplomatic engagement.
但是最大的不确定因素在于大西洋两岸对进行实质性的外交接触有多大兴辑。
The result of that extensive review was to launch a policy of pragmatic engagement with Burma's leadership.
这次广泛审议的结果是发起了与缅甸领导层进行接触的务实政策。
It is a sign that she has no longer the regard for him, Is their engagement safe and suitable?
这说明她已不再关心他了。他们之间的婚约还合适，还靠得住吗？
"When I first came to London, " said he, "I secured an engagement at one of your public institutions. "
“我初到伦敦的时候，”他说，“在你们一个公共机关里谋到一份差使。”
Long standing and public as was the engagement, her happiness must not make sacrifices to it.
尽管订婚时间已经不短而且尽人皆知，但是不能因此而牺牲她的幸福。
During the period of her engagement a young lady even of the most slender pretensions counts upon more bouquets than at other times.
在她订婚的日子里一个哪怕是最不善做作的姑娘也比在其他日子里期望更多的鲜花。
A long-standing engagement of Bertha and Miss Ley forced him to take leave of them in the afternoon.
伯莎和莱伊小姐有个很久以前预订的约会，这迫使他在下午与他们道别。
We felicitated John on his engagement to marry.
我们祝贺约翰订婚。
I am under an engagement to dine with Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson five days hence.
我已经约好在五天后到蒙斯图特·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.
（简对于和汤姆的订婚仍旧感到很矛盾，因为她发现她到现在还非常在意迈克。）
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.
我曾经在伦敦主持了六国外长会议，在会议上我们谈的就是“接触”。
He said the 2006 Iraq Study Group's recommendation for more engagement with Iran has not been implemented.
盖茨说，伊拉克研究小组2006年提出的与伊朗进行更多接触的建议并没有实施。
We've found that awareness is often higher with non-contextually targeted ads, but engagement and recall is higher with contextual ads.
我们发现与上下文无关的广告被觉察到的机会更高，但是上下文相关的广告有更高的关注率和回忆率。
Obama said the third part of the U. S. strategy is comprehensive American engagement across the region.
奥巴马总统指出，美国的战略方案的第三部分是同整个地区进行全面接触。
"Senior leaders from both sides will need to talk further about this . . . That would be a second phase of our engagement, " she said.
“双方的高级领导人将进行进一步的磋商……这会是签订合约的第二步”，她说。
Aw, let the engagement go. Come on. I can get rid of him. I want to have a good talk with you.
咳，别去赴什么约了。走吧。我可以把那个朋友甩开。我要和你好好地谈一谈。
she wrote to him and told him that she hated to be kept waiting and returned the engagement ring to the guy.
她觉得自己再也配不上他了，于是写信告诉他自己不想再等了，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.
对于她的妈妈而言，幸运的是，一场订婚迅速被制造出来，从而避免了一场政治灾难，但过程真是惊险。
Lying messengers were to be dispatched into every quarter of the city with apologies for your breach of engagement.
撒谎的信使被派遣到这座城市的每个角落，为你的违背诺言进行辩解。
Photography in interactive media is often a trigger for engagement and interaction.
照片往往能够触发用户与网站建立联系或者与其交互的渴望。
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，她同意会见参议员韦布，这表明她对看到了美国与缅甸交涉新政策的一些价值。
We do not know the answer, and the US, quite sensibly, is combining a policy of engagement with one of hedging.
对此，我们不得而知，而美国则相当明智地将接触与防范政策结合起来。
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.
菲舍尔可是非常宝贝她的订婚钻戒——从来不戴着它工作，怕拍戏间隙中有人会把它偷走。
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，两人对彼此的倾慕超出了对任何一位在世诗人的欣赏，那份友谊刻骨铭心、与众不同。
Culture must be monitored to understand the health and engagement of your organization.
文化必须进行监测，以了解组织的健康和参与程度。
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，对一个单身女人来说，把一个戒指戴在无名指上，可能让她一辈子单身。所以很不吉利。
The United States has made it a focus of our engagement abroad to help people to feed themselves.
美国已将帮助人们吃上饭作为在海外的工作中的一项重点。
Q: There has been a bit of talk that engagement hasn't worked, that we need to focus more on sanctions, on punishments.
问：一直有些舆论，说接触并没有奏效，我们需要更侧重于制裁和惩罚。
China came out of its shell three decades ago due to vigorous engagement with, not lectures from, Washington and Brussels.
由于华盛顿和布鲁塞尔提供强劲的融资担保，才使使中国从三十年前的腐朽情形里走了出来。训斥不能解决问题。
