Engaged

(adj.) having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; 'she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities'; 'deeply engaged in conversation' .

(adj.) built against or attached to a wall; 'engaged columns' .

(adj.) having services contracted for; 'the carpenter engaged (or employed) for the job is sick' .

(adj.) (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting; 'the gears are engaged'; 'meshed gears'; 'intermeshed twin rotors' .

(adj.) involved in military hostilities; 'the desperately engaged ships continued the fight' .

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• It would be better to have the garrisons engaged there added to Butler's command. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A hob was the flat part of the open hearth where water and spirits were warmed; and the small table, at which people sat when so engaged, was called a nob. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The men engaged in the Mexican war were brave, and the officers of the regular army, from highest to lowest, were educated in their profession. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The troops engaged in them will have to look to the detailed reports of their individual commanders for the full history of those deeds. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• You notice where he is now, and how engaged? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I had no idea that Mr. Betteredge was engaged. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She was engaged to breakfast that morning with the Duchess of Beltshire, and at twelve o'clock she asked to be set ashore in the gig. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• She is engaged to be married to a most worthy and deserving man in her own station of life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Her nature was represented to us, when we engaged her, as being feebly expressed in her name. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• And yet some of the brightest intellects of the century have been engaged in devising means to accomplish the result, and all are not yet agreed as to which is the best way. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• So he engaged Dritzhn. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I told you Munden's day was over, and that he would not fill the house, before you engaged him for to-night, said George Lamb. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A private sitting-room having been engaged, bedrooms inspected, and dinner ordered, the party walked out to view the city and adjoining neighbourhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Warren was not aware of his presence, but probably supposed it was the cavalry which Merritt had engaged earlier in the day. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So far, only our cavalry and the advance of Lee's army were engaged. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I answered-- I did not wish to disturb you, as you seemed engaged, sir. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• When they present themselves in Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mr. Tulkinghorn is engaged and not to be seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You are engaged, said I; perhaps I interrupt you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The Royal Personage declared with an oath that she was perfection, and engaged her again and again in conversation. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He asked to be relieved from further duty in the capacity in which he was engaged and his request was granted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Of course I should do no such thing, said Wildeve But they are not engaged yet. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I love my love with an E, because she's enticing; I hate her with an E, because she's engaged. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr. Lorry readily engaged for that, and the conference was ended. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one pursuit. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• At last however I got a hearing, and, as I suspected would be the case, was immediately engaged. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I can't stay, because I'm engaged to some fellows to-night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Of course the assault was a failure, and of course the loss on our side was great for the number of men engaged. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• That a certain amount of labor must be engaged in goes without saying. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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