4VERB 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. 适应;(与…)建立密切关系
She found it hard to engage with office life. [VERB + with]
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. [VERBwith noun]
她已经发誓要努力和当地的爱尔兰人建立关系。
engagement
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。
5VERB 任命;聘用;雇用 If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it. 任命;聘用;雇用 [formal]
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer. [VERB noun]
我们雇用了一个公认的杰出工程师。
He had been able to engage some staff. [VERB noun]
6V-ERG (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. (使)啮合;(使)咬合
Press the lever until you hear the catch engage. [VERB]
压下挡杆,直到听到挡挂好。
...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive. [VERB noun]
ADVERB | VERB + ENGAGE | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤actively, directly積極投入;立即從事◇Our contributors are actively engaging with tradition.我們的撰稿人在積極地涉獵傳統問題。➤fully, seriously完全/認真參與➤constructively, effectively, successfully建設性地投入;有效地參與;成功地參加➤critically, emotionally, intellectually, politically批判性地參與;調動情緒;全心投入;參與政治◇The party is attempting to engage young voters politically.這個政黨設法讓年輕選民參與政治。VERB + ENGAGE➤fail to, refuse to沒能投入;拒絕從事PREPOSITION➤with處理◇We acknowledge the need to engage directly with these problems.我們承認需要立即處理這些問題。engage
verb
●engage (sb) in sthADVERB➤actively使 ( 某人 ) 積極從事⋯◇people who actively engage in shaping the world they live in積極參與改造所生存的世界的人➤constructively建設性地使(某人)參與◇They constructively engage critics in debates.他們建設性地使批評家們參與辯論。➤openly公開使(某人)參與➤regularly, routinely (especially NAmE) 經常/定期從事◇The army was regularly engaged in combat.陸軍經常參與戰鬥。VERB + ENGAGE IN➤attempt to, seek to, try to試圖 ( 使某人 ) 參加⋯;盡力 ( 讓某人 ) 參與⋯◇He tried to engage me in conversation.他設法跟我攀談。➤be eager to, be willing to渴望 ( 使某人 ) 參加⋯;願意 ( 讓某人 ) 參與⋯▸➤be reluctant to, be unwilling to不願 ( 讓某人 ) 參與⋯