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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This gentleman (he pointed to Luzhin) was recently engaged to be married to a young lady my sister, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikov.
-- At last, realising that he was engaged in this interesting pursuit, he started, got up and walked resolutely out of the room.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was still engaged in peering about, when Mr. Mell cameback, and asked me what I did up there?
-- Mealy's father was awaterman, who had the additional distinction of being a fireman,and was engaged as such at one of the large theatres; where someyoung relation of Mealy's- I think his little sister- did Imps in thePantomimes.
-- 153Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could inthe warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of sixshillings a week.
-- The only changes I am conscious of are, firstly,that I had grown more shabby, and secondly, that I was nowrelieved of much of the weight of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber's cares;for some relatives or friends had engaged to help them at theirpresent pass, and they lived more comfortably in the prison thanthey had lived for a long while out of it.
-- Although I was deeply interested in this dialogue, I could not helpobserving my aunt, Mr. Dick, and Janet, while it was in progress,and completing a survey I had already been engaged in making ofthe room.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He quitted the militia and engaged in trade, having brothers already established in a good way in London, which afforded him a favourable opening.
-- It was much easier to chat than to study; much pleasanter to let her imagination range and work at Harriet's fortune, than to be labouring to enlarge her com-84 Emmaprehension or exercise it on sober facts; and the only literary pursuit which engaged Harriet at present, the only mental provision she was making for the evening of life, was the collecting and transcribing all the riddles of every sort that she could meet with, into a thin quarto of hot-pressed pa-per, made up by her friend, and ornamented with ciphers and trophies.
-- Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some inter-esting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.
-- In general their evenings were less engaged with friends than their mornings; but one complete dinner engagement, and out of the house too, there was no avoiding, though at Christmas.
-- The evening of the very day on which they went brought a note from Mr. Elton to Mr. Woodhouse, a long, civil, cer-emonious note, to say, with Mr. Elton's best compliments, 'that he was proposing to leave Highbury the following morning in his way to Bath; where, in compliance with the pressing entreaties of some friends, he had engaged to spend a few weeks, and very much regretted the impossi-bility he was under, from various circumstances of weather and business, of taking a personal leave of Mr. Woodhouse, of whose friendly civilities he should ever retain a grateful sense and had Mr. Woodhouse any commands, should be happy to attend to them.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Matthew Moon, Joseph Poorgrass, and other carters and waggoners followed at his heels, with great lanterns dangling from their hands, which showed that they had just come from the cart-horse stables, where they had been busily engaged since four o'clock that morning.
-- Mistress and man were engaged in the operation of making a lamb "take," which is performed whenever an ewe has lost her own offspring, one of the twins of another ewe being given her as a substitute.
-- At the present moment he was engaged in handing round a mug of mild liquor, supplied from a barrel in the corner, and cut pieces of bread and cheese.
-- He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities whilst waiting for the will to direct it, and the force wasted itself in useless grooves through unheeding the comprehension.
-- The men and women being all busily engaged in saving the hay even Liddy had left the house for the purpose of lending a hand Bathsheba resolved to hive the bees herself, if possible.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Eugene feared that his neighbor had been taken ill; he went over and looked through the keyhole; the old man was busily engaged in an occupation so singular and so suspicious that Rastignac thought he was only doing a piece of necessary service to society to watch the self- styled vermicelli maker's nocturnal industries.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.
-- I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
-- Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's appre-hensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
-- All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.
-- I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continual-ly engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure I was now alone.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course, she did not intend to tell her mother what was so heavy on her heart, for Ellen would be shocked andgrieved to know that a daughter of hers wanted a man who was engaged to another girl.
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