engage

• vt. 吸引，占用；使参加；雇佣；使订婚；预定
• vi. 从事；答应，保证；交战；啮合

en-, 进入，使。-gage, 承诺，加入，词源同wage, wedding. 词义由承诺向多方面扩展。

1. carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in;

"She pursued many activities"

"They engaged in a discussion"

2. engage or engross wholly;

"Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"

3. engage or hire for work;

"They hired two new secretaries in the department"

"How many people has she employed?"

4. ask to represent; of legal counsel;

"I'm retaining a lawyer"

5. give to in marriage

6. get caught;

"make sure the gear is engaged"

7. as of wars, battles, or campaigns;

"Napoleon and Hitler waged war against all of Europe"

8. as of aid, help, services, or support

9. engage for service under a term of contract;

"We took an apartment on a quiet street"

"Let's rent a car"

"Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

10. keep engaged;

"engaged the gears"

engage

engage: [15] Vulgar Latin had a noun *wadium ‘pledge’ (it came from Germanic *wathjam, source also of English wed and wage). From it was derived a verb *wadiāre ‘pledge’, which formed the basis of a compound *inwadiāre. Germanic w became g in French (hence French Guillaume for William), so the Old French descendant of *inwadiāre was engager, acquired by English as engage. (The superficially similar gauge [15] is probably not related, although it is not known for certain what its ultimate source is.)
=> wage, wed

engage (v.)

early 15c., "to pledge" (something, as security for payment), from Old French engagier "bind (by promise or oath), pledge; pawn" (12c.), from phrase en gage "under pledge," from en "in" (see en- (1)) + gage "pledge," through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *wadiare "pledge" (see wed). It shows the common evolution of Germanic -w- to central French -g- (see gu-). Meaning "attract and occupy the attention of" is from 1640s; that of "employ, secure for aid, employment or use" is from 1640s, from notion of "binding as by a pledge;" meaning "enter into combat or contest with" is from 1640s. Specific sense of "promise to marry" is 1610s (implied in engaged). Machinery sense is from 1884. Also from the French word are German engagiren, Dutch engageren, Danish engagere.

hire, employ, engage

这些动词均含"雇用"之意。

hire： 普通用词，常指短期或长期雇用某人从事某一特定工作或一次性的工作，含强调为薪金而工作的意味。

employ： 正式用词，侧重受雇者虽为薪金而工作，但工作固定共享有相当尊严。

engage可与hire换用，特指雇用专业人员。

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Companies, marketers and teachers have long looked for fun ways to engage people's reward-seeking or competitive spirits.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease prejudice and compel students to engage in more ethnically diverse friendships.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Engage them in more meaningful activities.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

It is something people all engage in.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

An entertaining way of enhancing your analytical skills is to engage them by playing brain games.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

like cats, babies appear to engage in what's called "preferential looking"—looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Most of them engage with potential donors, since projects that answered questions from interested donors fared better.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

They're documenting why teaching is such a fruitful way to learn, and designing innovative ways for young people to engage in instruction.

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

While they sound efficient and cost-saving, a recent study reports that they are not effective, primarily because depressed patients are not likely to engage with them or stick with them.

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

You see, writing by hand forces you to actually engage with what you're learning in a more physical way.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It has done well in engaging the viewers.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that 30-second spots do not.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

While most parents, teachers and clinicians would react to an adolescent using drugs or getting drunk, they may easily overlook teenagers who are engaging in inconspicuous behaviors.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

No wonder only 13% of employees worldwide feel engaged in their occupation.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Fancy packaging can help to engage new smokers.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

We found that when we taught participants to ask What if? and How can? questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit − asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better inter pretations of their results.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clichés, thus failing to engage the reader.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

In particular, we engage in two types of comparison.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

And yet, the same motivation that can push people to exert more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in unethical behaviors," says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn's Wharton School.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Compressing everything into three years also leaves less time for growing up, engaging in extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

There are three dozen universities in the UK which are actively engaged in advanced research training and commercialisation work

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Compared with early generations we spend more and more time working and have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursues.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

It is engaged in product design.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term "workplace telepressure" to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in "defensive medicine" by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sue

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Researchers have already begun to use smartphones in social scientific research, either to query people regularly as they engage in their normal lives or to record activity using the device's built-in sensors.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Robots capable of social engagement help with loneliness as well as cognitive functioning, but the robot itself doesn't have to engage directly—it can serve as an intermediary for human communication.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes because this woman is engaging with it.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The students benefiting most from college are those who are totally engaged in academic life, taking full advantage of the college's chances and resources.

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 原文

The watched-pot wait engages body and brain.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Those who were highest in status in high school, as well as those least liked in elementary school, are "most likely to engage in dangerous and risky behavior".

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page一including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns一debates about texts can pla

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitt

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

She tried desperately to engage him in conversation .

她用尽办法要他跟她谈话。

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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。

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He is currently engaged as a consultant.

他现在受雇为顾问。

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She has the ability to engage with young minds.

她能够与年轻人心意相通。

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to engage the enemy

与敌人交战

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One cogwheel engages with the next.

齿轮一个个啮合在一起。

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The cogwheels are not engaging.

齿轮未啮合在一起。

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Engage the clutch before selecting a gear.

先踩离合器再挂挡。

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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。

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He had been able to engage some staff.

他已经能够雇用一些员工。

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Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.

压下挡杆，直到听到挡挂好。

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...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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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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They tried to engage him in conversation...

他们试图跟他交谈。

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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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She found it hard to engage with office life...

她发现很难适应办公室生活。

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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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We engaged the services of a recognised engineer...

我们雇用了一个公认的杰出工程师。

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You can engage in croquet on the south lawn.

你可以参加南边草坪上的槌球游戏。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I have never engaged in the drug trade...

我从未参与过毒品交易。

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That is more than I can engage for.

那我可保证不了.

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Our orders are to engage at once.

我们的命令是立刻进攻.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

This book invites the reader to engage in a dialogue.

本书采用与读者对话的方式.

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No unit or individual without appointment shall engage in production activities of ephedrine.

未经指定的任何单位和个人,不得从事麻黄素的生产活动.

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We never engage in irregularities.

我们决不搞歪的邪的.

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No wonder they drink, smoke, fight, carouse and otherwise engage in inappropriate social behavior.

难怪他们喝酒 、 抽烟 、 打架 、 狂欢作乐或者做出不当的社会举动.

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