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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On rejoining their companions, they found Glenarvan busily engaged in conversation with the Indian, though apparently unable to make him understand.
-- But Paganel was too busily engaged with his knife and fork to lose a single mouthful, though he did his best to eat and talk at the same time.
-- From 1606 to 1862, more than fifty have been engaged in exploring along the coast and in the interior."
-- He left Dundalk, where he was starving, and came with his family to Australia, landed at Adelaide, where, refusing employment as a miner, he got engaged on a farm, and two months afterward commenced clearing ground on his own account.
-- It was to certify that "Tom Ayrton, able-bodied seaman, was engaged as quartermaster on board the three-mast vessel, the BRITANNIA, Glasgow."
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Where had you engaged a seat?'
-- Since the tragic upshot of our visit to Devonshire he had been engaged in two affairs of the utmost importance, in the first of which he had exposed the atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal of the Nonpareil Club, while in the second he had defended the unfortunate Mme.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think only one of your rooms is engaged as yet, is it not?
-- Nina Alexandrovna and her daughter were both seated in the drawing-room, engaged in knitting, and talking to a visitor, Ivan Petrovitch Ptitsin.
-- Ptitsin, as was well known, was engaged in the business of lending out money on good security, and at a good rate of interest.
-- 'I was passionately in love with her when she was en-gaged engaged to my friend.
-- He added that Rogojin was drunk, of course; but that he thought the money would be forthcoming, for the excited and intoxi-cated rapture of the fellow impelled him to give any interest or premium that was asked of him, and there were several others engaged in beating up the money, also.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he was thus engaged a sweet and careless sleep might be made to steal over his eyes and senses.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bunting was standing in the window engaged in an attempt to clothe himself in the hearth-rug and a West Surrey Gazette.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime, I in part settled myself here; for, first of all, I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction, and had three children, two sons and one daughter; but my wife dying, and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad, and his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies; this was in the year 1694.
-- Besides this, I shared the lands into parts with them, re-served to myself the property of the whole, but gave them such parts respectively as they agreed on; and having set-tled all things with them, and engaged them not to leave the place, I left them there.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Edward had been staying several weeks in the house before he engaged much of Mrs. Dashwood's attention; for she was, at that time, in such affliction as rendered her careless of surrounding objects.
-- "And you really are not engaged to him!"
-- The house and the garden, with all the objects surrounding them, were now become familiar, and the ordinary pursuits which had given to Norland half its charms were engaged in again with far greater enjoyment than Norland had been able to afford, since the loss of their father.
-- From that moment she doubted not of their being engaged to each other; and the belief of it created no other surprise than that she, or any of their friends, should be left by tempers so frank, to discover it by accident.
-- He engaged to be with them by four o'clock.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound of the hammer engaged upon the erection of new structures was everywhere heard.
-- A thousand chances the subject of the performance had never been brought up had Jessica not been so engaged by the attentions of her young companion, who usurped as much time as possible.
-- She was engaged in looking out of the window.
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