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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Naturally, she would have to say then that she simply couldn't think of marrying a man when he was engaged toanother girl, but he would insist and finally she would let herself be persuaded.
-- The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged intheir old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious,the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.
-- It was one thing to know thatAshley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.
-- "But she's as good as engaged to Stuart.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention.
-- Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate;--whether Miss Havisham, preferring to take personal vengeance for an outrage done to her house, might rise in those grave-clothes of hers, draw a pistol, and shoot me dead:--whether suborned boys--a numerous band of mercenaries--might be engaged to fall upon me in the brewery, and cuff me until I was no more;--it was high testimony to my confidence in the spirit of the pale young gentleman, that I never imagined him accessory to these retaliations; they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.
-- In these dialogues, my sister spoke to me as if she were morally wrenching one of my teeth out at every reference; while Pumblechook himself, self-constituted my patron, would sit supervising me with a depreciatory eye, like the architect of my fortunes who thought himself engaged on a very unremunerative job.
-- He laid down the carving-knife and fork,--being engaged in carving, at the moment,--put his two hands into his disturbed hair, and appeared to make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it.
-- I was pretty good at most exercises in which country boys are adepts, but as I was conscious of wanting elegance of style for the Thames,--not to say for other waters,--I at once engaged to place myself under the tuition of the winner of a prize-wherry who plied at our stairs, and to whom I was introduced by my new allies.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last she came to Mother Holle's house, and as she had heard all about the large teeth from her sister, she was not afraid of them, and engaged herself without delay to the old woman.
-- Their brother, however, was greatly rejoiced to see them, and told them all that had happened to him; how he had found the Water of Life, and had taken a cup full of it; and how he had set a beautiful princess free from a spell that bound her; and how she had engaged to wait a whole year, and then to marry him, and to give him the kingdom.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
-- I would gladly have taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his majesty engaged my honour 'not to carry away any of his subjects, although with their own consent and desire.'
-- And as for that monstrous animal with 151whom I was so lately engaged (it was indeed as large as an elephant), if my fears had suffered me to think so far as to make use of my hanger,' (looking fiercely, and clapping my hand on the hilt, as I spoke) 'when he poked his paw into my chamber, perhaps I should have given him such a wound, as would have made him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he put it in.'
-- The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can't stay, because I'm engaged to some fellows to-night.
-- An operation which, taken in connexion with the bushy eyebrows and the Roman nose, suggested with some liveliness the idea of a hawk engaged upon the eyes of a tough little bird.
-- The visitor having strolled to the window, and being then engaged in looking carelessly out, was as unmoved by this impressive entry as man could possibly be.
-- He was startled when they came upon him while he was engaged in this latter pastime, and his colour changed.
-- said he, 'you know what you have engaged to do.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other street, situated more to the west, runs toward a little lake between the residences of the bishop and the other personages not engaged in commerce.
-- Hans was engaged in putting the finishing stroke to our baggage, which he did in a silent, quiet way that won my admiration, and yet he did it admirably well.
-- The descents were sufficiently perilous, and while we were engaged in them we learned fully to appreciate the marvelous coolness of our guide, Hans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his plate; since he could not look towards her without receiving some glance of mysterious meaning or warning, as if they were engaged in a plot.
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