engaged是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 占用的， 从事的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mother and her daughters were engaged in sewing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, the proof would go back five years, and would show the prisoner al-ready engaged in these pernicious missions, within a few weeks before the date of the very first action fought between the British troops and the Americans.
-- He had asked the prisoner, aboard the Calais packet, if he wanted a handy fellow, and the prisoner had engaged him.
-- It fell out that he was thus engaged in a season when crowds were few, and belated women few, and when his af-fairs in general were so unprosperous as to awaken a strong suspicion in his breast that Mrs. Cruncher must have been 'flopping' in some pointed manner, when an unusual con-course pouring down Fleet-street westward, attracted his attention.
-- When it was yet light enough to work and read, she had neither engaged herself in her usual work, nor had she read to him.
-- Mr. Lorry readily engaged for that, and the conference was ended.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt sure she would dance the mazurka with him as she had done at former balls, and refused five young men, saying she was engaged for the mazurka.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch was busily engaged with them for a long while, drew up a program for them from which they were not to depart, and on dismissing them wrote a letter to Petersburg for the guidance of the deputation.
-- 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.
-- The very details, the mere thought of which reduced her husband to terror, immediately engaged her attention.
-- Since their conversation about religion when they were engaged neither of them had ever started a discussion of the subject, but she performed all the ceremonies of going to church, saying her prayers, and so on, always with the unvarying conviction that this ought to be so.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A package of banknotes, to the value of fifty-five thousand pounds, had been taken from the principal cashier's table, that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering the receipt of three shillings and sixpence.
-- They stopped, and engaged in a whispered colloquy.
-- A room was engaged for the young woman, and Mr. Fogg, after seeing that she wanted for nothing, set out in search of her cousin Jeejeeh.
-- Two state-rooms in the rear were, however, unoccupied those which had been engaged by Phileas Fogg.
-- He was engaged to act in the celebrated Japanese troupe.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Any psychologist desiring a perfectly normal man for use in demonstrations could not have done better than to have engaged Irving Watters.
-- He informed himself that he was a moron to make this long trip into Zenith twice in one day; he remembered that he was engaged to a girl called Madeline Fox; he worried the matter of unfaithfulness; he asserted that Leora Tozer was merely an imitation nurse who was as illiterate as a kitchen wench and as impertinent as a newsboy; he decided, several times he decided, to telephone her and free himself from the engagement.
-- Martin went home engaged to two girls at once.
-- I'm engaged to both of you, and I want to know--" Madeline had sprung up.
-- But you're mine!I warn you it isn't a bit of use your getting engaged to somebody else again.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There his progress was barred by some porters who were engaged in moving furniture out of a flat.
-- He was engaged in such monologues when Zossimov, who had spent the night in Praskovya Pavlovna's parlour, came in.
-- A quarter of an hour later, they were all engaged in a lively conversation.
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