engages

英 [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz]

美 [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪz]

v.  吸引住(注意力、兴趣); 雇用; 聘用; 与…建立密切关系; 尽力理解
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 参与;从事
  If youengage inan activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
  1. I have never engaged in the drug trade...
     我从未参与过毒品交易。
  2. You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.
     你可以参加南边草坪上的槌球游戏。
• VERB 吸引（人）;引起（注意、兴趣）
  If somethingengagesyou or your attention or interest, it keeps you interested in it and thinking about it.
  1. 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。
• VERB 使参与，使参加（谈话）
  If youengagesomeoneinconversation, you have a conversation with them.
  1. They tried to engage him in conversation...
     他们试图跟他交谈。
  2. We want to engage recognized leaders in discussion.
     我们想和公认的领袖们进行讨论。
• VERB 适应；（与…）建立密切关系
  If youengage withsomething orwitha 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.
  1. She found it hard to engage with office life...
     她发现很难适应办公室生活。
  2. 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。
• VERB 任命;聘用;雇用
  If youengagesomeone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it.
  1. We engaged the services of a recognised engineer...
     我们雇用了一个公认的杰出工程师。
  2. He had been able to engage some staff.
     他已经能够雇用一些员工。
• V-ERG （使）啮合;（使）咬合
  When a part of a machine or other mechanismengagesor when youengageit, it moves into a position where it fits into something else.
  1. Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.
     压下挡杆，直到听到挡挂好。
  2. ...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive.
     如何使四轮驱动啮合的课程
• VERB 与…交战
  When a military forceengagesthe enemy, it attacks them and starts a battle.
  1. 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。
• See also:engagedengaging

双语例句

• An accounting entity is any economic unit which controls resource and engages in economic activities.
  一个会计主体就是任意一个可以掌握资源并从事经济活动的经济单位。
• She is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations.
  这位少妇非常健谈，以致于她可以沉浸在自言自语中而不需要交谈者。
• It is important America engages with China in a way that assists that process.
  美国以协助这一进程的方式与中国打交道，是很重要的。
• Her niece, an extremely voluble young woman, engages in soliloquies, not conversations.
  她的侄女是一个极其善谈、说起话来滔滔不绝的年轻妇人，她总是在独白，而不是对话。
• A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion.
  一个齿轮咬住另一个齿轮为了改变传动装置的方向和速度。
• A third layer engages in the nitty-gritty of improving existing products within business units.
  第三层对业务部门内部的现有产品进行细节完善。
• In order to protect the equipment, the owner engages engineers for construction equipment supervision.
  根据这一特点，业主为保护设备聘请了施工设备监理。
• As it engages in modernization, China needs a peaceful international environment.
  中国进行现代化建设，需要和平的国际环境。
• It is a private enterprise which professionally engages in research, production and marketing of wolfberry tea-leaves.
  是一家专业从事枸杞叶茶研发、生产和销售的民营企业。
• Going through the motions can trigger the emotions.4.Seek work and leisure that engages your skills.
  从事能够发挥你的技能的工作和休闲活动；