[VERB 动词]参与；从事 If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
[V in n]
[FORMAL 正式]
I have never engaged in the drug trade...
我从未参与过毒品交易。
You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
你可以参加南边草坪上的槌球游戏。
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[VERB 动词]吸引（人）；引起（注意、兴趣） If something engages you or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it.
[V n]
They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others.
他们从未学过吸引他人注意的技巧。
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[VERB 动词]使参与，使参加（谈话） If you engage someone in conversation, you have a conversation with them.
[V n in n]
They tried to engage him in conversation...
他们试图跟他交谈。
We want to engage recognized leaders in discussion.
我们想和公认的领袖们进行讨论。
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[VERB 动词]适应；（与…）建立密切关系 If you engage with something or with a group of people, you get involved with that thing or group and feel that you are connected with it or have real contact with it.
[V with n]
She found it hard to engage with office life...
她发现很难适应办公室生活。
She had vowed to go out of her way to engage with the Irish people at local community level.
她已经发誓要努力和当地的爱尔兰人建立关系。
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And she, too, suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the literary texts.
她也因为对文学作品缺乏鉴赏力而非常痛苦。
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[VERB 动词]任命；聘用；雇用 If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.
[V n]
[FORMAL 正式]
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer...
我们雇用了一个公认的杰出工程师。
He had been able to engage some staff.
他已经能够雇用一些员工。
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[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]（使）啮合；（使）咬合 When a part of a machine or other mechanism engages or when you engage it, it moves into a position where it fits into something else.
[V]
[V n]
Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.
压下挡杆，直到听到挡挂好。
...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive.
如何使四轮驱动啮合的课程
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[VERB 动词]与…交战 When a military force engages the enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle.
[V n]
It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.
从这可以避开敌方鱼雷区对敌人发动进攻。
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en·gage★/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ; NAmEɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/verb1★[transitive ]engagesth ( formal) to succeed in attracting and keeping sb's attention and interest 吸引住（注意力、兴趣）◆It is a movie that engages both the mind and the eye.这是一部令人赏心悦目的影片。2★[transitive ]engagesb (as sth) |engagesth |engagesb to do sth ( formal) to employ sb to do a particular job 雇用；聘用◆He is currently engaged as a consultant.他现在受雇为顾问。3[intransitive ]engage(with sth/sb) to become involved with and try to understand sth/sb 与…建立密切关系；尽力理解◆She has the ability to engage with young minds.她能够与年轻人心意相通。4[transitive , intransitive ]engage(sb) ( formal) to begin fighting with sb 与（某人）交战；与（某人）开战◆to engage the enemy与敌人交战5[intransitive , transitive ]when a part of a machine engages,or when you engageit, it fits together with another part of the machine and the machine begins to work （使）衔接，啮合◆The cogwheels are not engaging.齿轮未啮合在一起。engagewith sth ◆One cogwheel engages with the next.齿轮一个个啮合在一起。engagesth ◆Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.先踩离合器再挂挡。OPP
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PHRASAL VERBenˈgage in sth | enˈgage sb in sth( formal) to take part in sth; to make sb take part in sth （使）从事，参加◆Even in prison, he continued to engage in criminal activities.他甚至在监狱里还继续从事犯罪活动。◆She tried desperately to engage him in conversation.她用尽办法要他跟她谈话。engageengagesengagedengagingen·gage/ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ; NAmEɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/
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engageen‧gage /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ/ ●○○ verb formal
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1[intransitive always + preposition] to be doing or to become involved in an activityengage in/on/upon Only 10% of American adults engage in regular exercise. The two parties engaged upon an escalating political struggle. Mr Armstrong was engaged in prayer.engage in doing something Despite her illness, she remains actively engaged in shaping policy.2[transitive] to attract someone’s attention and keep them interestedengage somebody’s interest/attention The toy didn’t engage her interest for long.engage somebody in conversation (=start talking to them)3engage with somebody/something to get involved with other people and their ideas in order to understand them: Are you so tired you don’t have the energy to engage with your kids?4[transitive] formal to employ someone to do a particular jobengage somebody to do something Her father engaged a tutor to improve her maths.engage somebody as something We’d be able to engage local people as volunteers.5[intransitive, transitive] if you engage part of a machine, or if it engages, it moves so that it fits into another part of the machineOPP disengage: She engaged the clutch and the car moved.engage with The wheel engages with the cog and turns it.6[intransitive, transitive] to begin to fight an enemy: American forces did not directly engage.
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