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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, when we were in Atlanta yesterday, waiting for the home train, her carriage went by the depot and shestopped and talked to us, and she told us there was going to be an engagement announced tomorrow night at theWilkes ball."
-- "Besides, it isn't his engagement that's going to be announced," said Stuart triumphantly.
-- It was supposed to be a secret and a surprise, anda man's got a right to keep his own engagement quiet, hasn't he?
-- Suppose it was the news of his engagement he had intended to tell her!
-- And Ashley's engagement had not even beenannounced yet!Yes, there was plenty of time!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was something so natural and winning in Clara's resigned way of looking at these stores in detail, as Herbert pointed them out; and something so confiding, loving, and innocent in her modest manner of yielding herself to Herbert's embracing arm; and something so gentle in her, so much needing protection on Mill Pond Bank, by Chinks's Basin, and the Old Green Copper Rope-walk, with Old Barley growling in the beam,--that I would not have undone the engagement between her and Herbert for all the money in the pocket-book I had never opened.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- adding, 'that he intended a voyage to the East Indies in two months,' at last he plainly invited me, though with some apologies, to be surgeon of the ship; 'that I should have an-other surgeon under me, beside our two mates; that my salary should be double to the usual pay; and that having experienced my knowledge in sea-affairs to be at least equal to his, he would enter into any engagement to follow my ad-vice, as much as if I had shared in the command.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time required for the completion of his scientific investigations, at the fixed salary of three rix-dollars a week, being exactly fourteen shillings and twopence, minus one farthing, English currency.
-- One stipulation, however, was made by the guide--the money was to be paid to him every Saturday night, failing which, his engagement was at an end.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You mustn't think of going yet,' said Flora Arthur had looked at his hat, being in a ludicrous dismay, and not knowing what to do: 'you could never be so unkind as to think of going, Arthur I mean Mr Arthur or I suppose Mr Clennam would be far more proper but I am sure I don't know what I am saying without a word about the dear old days gone for ever, when I come to think of it I dare say it would be much better not to speak of them and it's highly probable that you have some much more agreeable engagement and pray let Me be the last person in the world to interfere with it though there was a time, but I am running into nonsense again.'
-- ' There is an engagement between them, of course?'
-- She had no engagement to go out to work, however, and therefore stayed with him until, with Maggy's help, she had put everything right about him, and had seen him off upon his morning walk (of twenty yards or so) to the coffee-house to read the paper.
-- 'Because she can find my engagement out for herself, papa,' retorted Fanny.
-- In his light protestations of admiration of my future husband, in his enthusiasm regarding our engagement and our prospects, in his hopeful congratulations on our future wealth and his despondent references to his own poverty all equally hollow, and jesting, and full of mockery I saw it clearly.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Oh, I should merely say, quite calmly and decidedly, 'Thank you, Mr. Brooke, you are very kind, but I agree with Father that I am too young to enter into any engagement at present, so please say no more, but let us be friends as we were.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 23 lizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, re-Eflecting on what she had heard, and doubting whether she was authorised to mention it, when Sir William Lu-cas himself appeared, sent by his daughter, to announce her engagement to the family.
-- When the engagement was for home, some of the officers always made part of it of which officers Mr. Wickham was sure to be one; and on these occasion, Mrs. Gardiner, rendered suspicious by Elizabeth's warm commendation, narrowly observed them both.
-- The- fishing scheme had been renewed the day before, and a positive engagement made of his meeting some of the gentlemen at Pemberley before noon.
-- All that is required of you is, to assure to your daughter, by settlement, her equal share of the five thousand pounds secured among your children after the decease of yourself and my sister; and, moreover, to enter into an engagement of allowing her, during your life, one hundred pounds per annum.
-- Yes, he had no engagement at all for to-morrow; and her invitation was accepted with alacrity.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was loading these pieces, there happened a fierce engagement between the Spaniard and one of the savages, who made at him with one of their great wooden swords, the weapon that was to have killed him before, if I had not prevented it.
-- He talked to them of the injury done him, of the condition they were brought to, and that though the governor had given them quarter for their lives as to the present action, yet that if they were sent to England they would all be hanged in chains; but that if they would join in so just an attempt as to recover the ship, he would have the governor's engagement for their pardon.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I clearly understand it now, and I will strictly fulfil my engagement by such acts of assistance and kindness to them as you have described.
-- The cottage seemed to be considered and loved by him as his home; many more of his hours were spent there than at Allenham; and if no general engagement collected them at the park, the exercise which called him out in the morning was almost certain of ending there, where the rest of the day was spent by himself at the side of Marianne, and by his favourite pointer at her feet.
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