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词汇 engage
释义 engage
verb
uk /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ us /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/

engageverb (EMPLOY)


[ T ]mainly UKformal
to employ someone: 雇用;聘用
[ + to infinitive ]I have engaged a secretary to deal with all my paperwork.我雇用了一名秘书来处理我全部的文书工作。
engage the services ofWe're engaging the services of a professional administrator.我们将聘用专业管理人员为我们服务。
We've recently engaged a cleaner.
She has been known to engage the services of a professional shopper.
For these services he would otherwise have to engage a psychotherapist.
A professional coach was immediately engaged.
240 stewards were engaged to ensure that the game went smoothly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Applying for a job
acqui-hire
advertisement
anoint
anointed
applicant
EDIB
elect
employ
employable
employment
employment agency
nominate
nomination
nominee
recruitment drive
referee
rehire
reinstate
reinstatement
relocation expenses

engageverb (INTEREST)


C1[ T ]formal
to interest someone in something and keep them thinking about it: 吸引住,使感兴趣
The debate about food safety has engaged the whole nation.关于食品安全的争论引起了全国关注。
engage someone’s interestIf a book doesn't engage my interest in the first few pages, I don't usually continue reading it.如果一本书的前几页不能引起我的兴趣,通常我就不再往下读了。
[ I ]formal
to become involved, or have contact, with someone or something:
She's an intelligent child but in class she doesn't really engage.
engage withJust stay out of his way as much as possible, and don't engage with him.
The subject doesn't engage me.
For some reason the film failed to engage my interest.
We're always looking out for new subjects that will engage our readers.
The debate fails to engage him intellectually.
He was examining his fingernails, one of which seemed to engage his attention.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inspiration and inspiring
anti-creative
apostolic
blue-sky
breathe
breathe (new) life into sthidiom
creative
divergent
divergently
enthral
entrance
grip
incentivize
kindle
muse
Promethean
re-engage
show
show (someone) the wayidiom
stimulating

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Making people excited and interested
Taking part and getting involved

engageverb (FIT TOGETHER)


[ I or T ]
to make one part of a machine fit into and move together with another part of a machine: (使)(机器)啮合,接合,衔接
engage (with)When the large gear wheel engages (with the smaller one), the mill stone will start to go round.当大齿轮(与小齿轮)啮合时,石磨就开始转动。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Engineering - mechanical
-engined
air-cooled
artificer
automative
bionics
drive shaft
fan belt
go on
horsepower
mechanical
mechanize
neutral
oilcan
override
pneumatic
stress test
tick over
tune (something) up
unmechanized
valve

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Placing and positioning an object

engageverb (BEGIN FIGHTING)


[ I or T ] military specialized
to attack or begin to fight someone: 进攻;(与…)交战,(与…)开战
Enemy planes engaged the troops as they advanced into the mountains.部队进山的时候,敌机开始对他们发起攻击。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Attacking & invading
advance guard
aggressor
ambush
beleaguer
beleaguered
besiege
blitz
cyberbullying
cyberwarfare
declare war on someone/something
false flag
full-frontal assault
hit and run
pincer movement
post-attack
post-conquest
pre-emption
privateer
surgical strike
swoop

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Fighting

engageverb (TEACH)


[ T ]Indian English
to teach someone, especially a class of children, or to keep someone busy教(儿童);使忙于,使参加
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Teaching in general
asynchronous
chief academic officer
CLIL
clue
clue in
didactic
hothouse
inculcate
miseducation
Moodle
multi-course
non-conditioned
non-didactic
popularize
sex ed
sex education
show/teach someone the ropesidiom
socialization
socializing
tutelage

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Busy and active

Phrasal verb


engage in something
engagé
adjective
 formaluk /ˌɒ̃.ɡæʒˈeɪ/ us /ˌɑ̃ː.ɡæʒˈeɪ/
especially of a writer, musician, artist, etc. interested in and taking part in politics(尤指作家、音乐家、艺术家等)积极介入政治的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Politics - general words
anti-capitalism
anti-capitalist
anti-communism
anti-communist
anti-fascism
interparty
interpellate
interpellation
interventionist
lab
on message
Orwellian
overstep
parliament
party politics
spill
statesman
statesmanlike
stateswoman
subsidiarity

engage | American Dictionary


engage
verb
us/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/

engageverb (INTEREST)


[ T ]
to cause someone to become interested or involved in an activity, or to attract someone’s interest:
He wrote about things that engaged him.

engageverb (FIT TOGETHER)


[ I/T ]
to fit one part of a machine into another so they move together, or cause something to fit into and move together:
[ I ]The gears won’t engage.
[ T ]You need to engage second gear.

engageverb (BEGIN FIGHTING)


[ T ]
to attack or begin to fight an enemy in a military operation:
The marines engaged the enemy.

engageverb (EMPLOY)


[ T ]
to arrange to employ someone; hire:
She decided to engage a personal assistant.
Her family engaged a tutor to teach her French.

Phrasal verb


engage in something

engage | Business English


engage
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/us
to employ someone:
engage sb (to do sth)They have engaged accountancy firm Ernst & Young to approach financial institutions for funding on their behalf.
It would be prudent to engage the services of a lawyer to help with this matter.

Examples of engage


engage
Those engaged in mathematical and philosophical studies did the same.
Assertives engage the speaker regarding the truth of the statement he/she is making : the psychological state being expressed is a belief.
Readers, it appears, were invited to engage in reflexive fantasy by associating their desired state of being with that of a trained psychologist.
Elections may be nominally free, but governments engage in extensive gerrymandering, manipulation of voter registration and harassment of opposition parties.
Sensitivity and flexibility are needed for engaging with individual families, but accurate measurement is needed for systems control.
To be fair, the book is explicitly an institutional history, and as such has no obligation to engage large historiographical themes.
The question of succession prompted families engaged in the same occupation to form an association that controlled members' marriages and inheritances.
To engage its targets, the immune system must first perceive them and then, in a sense, decide whether to react.
This issue could be examined by repeating the study using different tasks that engaged the same set of cognitive processes.
It is possible that most of them are engaged in illegal felling of trees.
Non-verbal cooperation was employed when the group was engaged in playing together and included musical and visual cues.
A few vessels show men engaged in different activities.
Thus, the individual chapters are in themselves generally engaging, yet cannot compensate for the volume's lack of theoretical rigour and integration.
To protect informants and actors engaged in youth politics, they are not identified unless otherwise agreed.
Is there support to be drawn from violence prevention for this distinction or similar differentiation among youth engaged in violence and related antisocial behavior?
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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