engagement是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 约会， 约定； 婚约， 订婚，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Early in the evening he embraced her, and her scarcely less dear namesake, pretending that he would return by-and-bye (an imaginary engagement took him out, and he had secreted a valise of clothes ready), and so he emerged into the heavy mist of the heavy streets, with 347a heavier heart.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had thought his engagement would have nothing about it like others, that the ordinary conditions of engaged couples would spoil his special happiness; but it ended in his doing exactly as other people did, and his happiness being only increased thereby and becoming more and more special, more and more unlike anything that had ever happened.
-- They were speaking of the last telegram stating that the Turks had been for three days in succession beaten at all points and put to flight, and that tomorrow a decisive engagement was expected.
-- And they fell to talking of the last war news, and each concealed from the other his perplexity as to the engagement expected next day, since the Turks had been beaten, according to the latest news, at all points.
-- Yes, driven back for a third time, but a decisive engagement expected for tomorrow."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The engagement was concluded there and then.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He went to her in the evening prepared to blaze out at her first complaining, to forgive her finally, but to break their engagement and make life resolutely simple again.
-- You watch me!Now I go and telegraph I can't keep a lecture engagement next week--huh!me lecture to a women's college, me that can talk rat-language and know seven beautiful deadly kind of traps!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How I thought andthought about my being poor, in Mr. Spenlow's eyes; about my notbeing what I thought I was, when I proposed to Dora; about thechivalrous necessity of telling Dora what my worldly conditionwas, and releasing her from her engagement if she thought fit;about how I should contrive to live, during the long term of myarticles, when I was earning nothing; about doing something toassist my aunt, and seeing no way of doing anything; aboutcoming down to have no money in my pocket, and to wear ashabby coat, and to be able to carry Dora no little presents, and toride no gallant greys, and to show myself in no agreeable light!
-- So the Doctorpersisted in making the engagement for her, and Mr. Jack Maldonwas to come back to dinner.
-- 'I speak, if I may presume to say so, as one who has some littleexperience of such things,' said Traddles, 'being myself engaged toa young lady- one of ten, down in Devonshire- and seeing noprobability, at present, of our engagement coming to atermination.'
-- We must guardourselves from recognising any positive engagement between Mr.Copperfield and our niece, until we have had an opportunity-''Until you have had an opportunity, sister Lavinia,' said MissClarissa.
-- Sometimes of an evening, when I looked upfrom my writing, and saw her seated opposite, I would lean backin my chair, and think how queer it was that there we were, alonetogether as a matter of course- nobody's business any more- all theromance of our engagement put away upon a shelf, to rust- no oneto please but one another- one another to please, for life.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Elton's engagement had been the cure of the agi-tation of meeting Mr. Martin.
-- The unhappiness produced by the knowledge of that engagement had been a little put aside by Elizabeth Martin's calling at Mrs. Goddard's a few days afterwards.
-- They were stopping, however, in the first place at Mrs. Bates's; whose house was a little nearer Randalls than Ford's; and had all but knocked, when Emma caught their eye. Im-mediately they crossed the road and came forward to her; and the agreeableness of yesterday's engagement seemed to give fresh pleasure to the present meeting.
-- As Frank Churchill's arrival had succeeded Mr. Elton's engagement in the con-versation of Highbury, as the latest interest had entirely borne down the first, so now upon Frank Churchill's dis-appearance, Mr. Elton's concerns were assuming the most irresistible form. His wedding-day was named.
-- She would not let Jane say, 'No;' for when Jane first heard of it, (it was the day be-fore yesterday, the very morning we were at Donwell,) when Jane first heard of it, she was quite decided against accept-ing the offer, and for the reasons you mention; exactly as you say, she had made up her mind to close with nothing till Colonel Campbell's return, and nothing should induce her to enter into any engagement at present and so she told Mrs. Elton over and over again and I am sure I had no more idea that she would change her mind! but that good Mrs. Elton, whose judgment never fails her, saw far-ther than I did.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be ungallant to suggest that the novelty of her engagement in such an occupation had almost as much to do with the magnetism as had the beauty of her face and movements.
-- BLAME FURYThe next evening Bathsheba, with the idea of getting out of the way of Mr. Boldwood in the event of his returning to answer her note in person, proceeded to fulfil an engagement made with Liddy some few hours earlier.
-- "I went to Bath that night in the full intention of breaking off my engagement to Mr.
-- No engagement ever existed between me and Miss Everdene.
-- A rush of recollection came upon Troy as he waited: this was the second time she had broken a serious engagement with him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must perform my engagement and let the monster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace.
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