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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan was on the point of replying that he had never doubted his good faith, when the man came in and brought his engagement written out in due form.
-- There was every reason to fear such an engagement in these narrow seas, in which pirates could ply their trade without risk.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One gentleman on his holiday had broken off his engagement on her account, and an old general had quarrelled with his only son for the same reason.
-- The engagement was both happy and suitable, and was therefore approved in society.
-- He is to be presented to old Bielokonski, though I believe he knows her already; probably the engagement will be openly announced.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While his companions were mounting, how-ever, he found time to press the hand of the scout, and to repeat the terms of an engagement they had made to meet again within the posts of the British army.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on.
-- I was glad that, catching sight of the clock at the Army and Navy Stores, he remembered an engagement to play cards at his club, and so left me to cut across St. James Park.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a little summer-house overlooking the river, where we might take a glass of this delicious liquor with a whiff of the best tobacco it's in this case, and of the rarest quality, to my certain knowledge and be perfectly snug and happy, could we possibly contrive it; or is there any very particular engagement that peremptorily takes you another way, Mr Swiveller, eh?'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yes, for I am unable to keep my engagement with you.
-- He is, moreover, aware that she DOES disapprove the connection, he dares not therefore at present confess to her his engagement with Marianne, and he feels himself obliged, from his dependent situation, to give into her schemes, and absent himself from Devonshire for a while.
-- It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from Mrs. Smith and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I guess we had better go, if you can break that engagement upstairs," said Drouet.
-- It was the evening of his engagement with Carrie and Drouet to see "The Covenant," which had brought him home to make some alterations in his dress.
-- One of the principal comedy companies of the day was playing an engagement at the Grand Opera House.
-- "I have an engagement myself."
-- "Well, I have an engagement with a friend upstairs.
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