engage
v. (使)參與; 吸引; 僱用; 適應; 與…交戰; (使)齧合
If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
I have never engaged in the drug trade...
我從未參與過毒品交易。
You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
你可以參加南邊草坪上的槌球遊戲。
If something engages you or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it.
They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others.
他們從未學過吸引他人注意的技巧。
If you engage someone in conversation, you have a conversation with them.
They tried to engage him in conversation...
他們試圖跟他交談。
We want to engage recognized leaders in discussion.
我們想和公認的領袖們進行討論。
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.
She found it hard to engage with office life...
她發現很難適應辦公室生活。
She had vowed to go out of her way to engage with the Irish people at local community level.
她已經發誓要努力和當地的愛爾蘭人建立關係。
If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer...
我們僱用了一個公認的傑出工程師。
He had been able to engage some staff.
他已經能夠僱用一些員工。
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.
Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.
壓下擋杆,直到聽到擋掛好。
...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive.
如何使四輪驅動齧合的課程
When a military force engages the enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle.
It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.
從這可以避開敵方魚雷區對敵人發動進攻。
1. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;
2. engage or engross wholly;
3. engage or hire for work;
4. ask to represent; of legal counsel;
5. give to in marriage
6. get caught;
7. as of wars, battles, or campaigns;
8. as of aid, help, services, or support
9. engage for service under a term of contract;
10. keep engaged;
hire, employ, engage
這些動詞均含"僱用"之意。
That is more than I can engage for.
那我可保證不了.
Our orders are to engage at once.
我們的命令是立刻進攻.
This book invites the reader to engage in a dialogue.
本書採用與讀者對話的方式.
No unit or individual without appointment shall engage in production activities of ephedrine.
未經指定的任何單位和個人,不得從事麻黃素的生產活動.
We never engage in irregularities.
我們決不搞歪的邪的.