参考词典中engagement的常规释义:
基本释义
- n. 约会,约定,婚约;雇用,聘用
常用短语
参考例句
- I congratulate you on your engagement.
我祝贺你订婚。 - I have a previous engagement at 6:30.
6点半我已有约。 - The singer signed a contract for a two-week engagement.
那位歌手签了为期两周的演出合同。 - He made a notation on his engagement calendar.
他在约会日程上作了记载。
- I congratulate you on your engagement.
英英解释
7个名词解释
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
[同] conflict, engagement, fight, battle
[例]- Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
- he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
- a meeting arranged in advance
[同] date, engagement, appointment
[例]- she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
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- a mutual promise to marry
[同] engagement, betrothal, troth - the act of giving someone a job
[同] employment, engagement - employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
[同] engagement, booking
[例]- the play had bookings throughout the summer
- contact by fitting together
[同] engagement, interlocking, mesh, meshing
[例]- the engagement of the clutch
- the meshing of gears
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group
[同] engagement, involution, involvement, participation
[反] non-engagement, non-involvement, nonparticipation
[例]- the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
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