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单词 engage
释义
engage
(ɪng )
Word forms: engages , engaging , engaged
1. verb
If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it. [formal]
It is important for children to have time to engage in family activities. [VERB + in]
You can engage in croquet on the south lawn. [VERB in noun]
2. verb
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. [VERB noun]
3. verb
If you engage someone in conversation, you have a conversation with them.
They tried to engage him in conversation. [VERB noun + in]
We want to engage recognized leaders in discussion. [V n in n]
Synonyms: occupy, involve, draw, busy  
4. verb
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. [VERB + with]
I will keep blogging because it offers me a way to engage with readers. [VERB with noun]
engagement uncountable noun
And she, too, suffers from a lack of critical engagement with the literary texts. [+ with]
Synonyms: promise, word, contract, bond  
Synonyms: job, work, post, situation  
Synonyms: participation, joining, taking part, involvement  
5. verb
If you engage someone to do a particular job, you appoint them to do it. [formal]
We engaged the services of a recognised engineer. [VERB noun]
He had been able to engage some staff. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: employ, commission, appoint, take on  
6. verb
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. [VERB]
...a lesson in how to engage the four-wheel drive. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: interlock, join, interact, mesh  
7. verb
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. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: begin battle with, attack, take on, encounter  
8.  See also engaged, engaging
Collocations:
engage a reader
The handwriting should maintain 'a personal style to engage the reader', whatever this might mean.
Times, Sunday Times
In order for the story to engage the reader or spectator, the conflict can usually be discerned as immediate, urgent, and insoluble.
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To battle both, he would engage his readers' imagination.
Christianity Today
He crowdsources knowledge, engaging readers through social media in an ongoing conversation about what they see in their own worlds.
Smithsonian Mag
Never assuming a captive audience, he might engage his readers' interest by taking on different personae, narrative devices and dialogues.
The Times Literary Supplement
engage fully
He said that he would engage fully with any review of the law.
Times, Sunday Times
Should it engage fully on the cricket field, ignoring the moral issues?
Times, Sunday Times
Staff look for students who engage fully and are interested in the work they are presented with, as well as how they interact socially.
Times, Sunday Times
My brain and my body just couldn't be bothered to engage fully.
Times,Sunday Times
While she may not be able to engage fully, she will learn a lot by hearing you talk about and display emotions around her.
Times, Sunday Times
engage politically
But we must also engage politically.
Times, Sunday Times
Critics say that he has failed to engage politically and has only helped the secessionist cause.
Times, Sunday Times
Other novelists engage politically or socially with the identity of other members of their nationality, and thus help define that national identity.
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When was the last time you engaged politically?
Times,Sunday Times
He's very engaged politically and will tweet whenever there's stuff going on, tributes and peaceful messages.
Times, Sunday Times
engage seriously
But he did make clear that his government would engage seriously in negotiations.
Globe and Mail
Yet many major figures engaged seriously with her in correspondence, and sometimes in print.
The Times Literary Supplement
Members met at least once a year to present papers to each other, but it did not engage seriously in questions of academic and professional status and development.
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What if they engaged seriously with the questions and allowed it to be seen that they had no answers?
Times,Sunday Times
engage socially
Studies suggest that infants exposed to maternal depression may be less likely to engage socially and experience more negative emotion.
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When you can’t understand the messages on other people’s faces, it’s hard to engage socially.
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The world of gaming can offer a safe space to interact with the virtual world without feeling the pressure of having to engage socially face-to-face.
Times, Sunday Times
He resented the structure of the private boarding school, but was in retrospect grateful for its forcing him to engage socially.
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For example, those who are extroverted by nature may deliberately engage socially, particularly with other extroverts like themselves.
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engage the imagination
The considered descriptions slow the reader's pace and engage the imagination.
The Times Literary Supplement
The prospect of using virtual reality headsets to create immersive, lifelike experiences has long engaged the imagination of video game developers.
Times, Sunday Times
Such play with words and symbols engaged his imagination for the rest of his life.
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Saikei landscapes are simpler and more abstract, emphasizing the landscape's natural shapes and materials and leaving viewers to engage their imaginations.
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engage the viewer
However, it seemed that its priority wasn't to engage the viewer but often to preach to them self-importantly.
Times, Sunday Times
She uses the body's presence to unsettle and engage the viewer.
Times, Sunday Times
Her intelligent conceptual strategies engage the viewer in an absorbing aesthetic and intellectual experience that turns conventional assumptions of power, secrecy, control and social space inside out.
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What began as disembodied commentary ends on a note of teasing challenge, resisting as well as engaging the viewer.
The Times Literary Supplement
This work quite literally engages the viewer.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 从事
Japanese: 従事する
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