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：
-- The former was seated on the end of a mossy log, in a posture that permitted him to heighten the effect of his earnest language, by the calm but expressive gestures of an Indian engaged in debate.
-- At the same moment, Duncan found himself engaged with the other, in a similar contest of hand to hand.
-- It is impossible to describe the music of their language, while thus engaged in laughter and endearments, in such a way as to render it intelligible to those whose ears have never listened to its melody.
-- Heyward seized the paddle, and applied himself to the work with an eagerness that supplied the place of skill, while Hawkeye was engaged in inspecting the priming of his rifle.
-- Setting the example himself, the scout engaged in the scrutiny with renewed zeal.
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：
-- told us of a case he was engaged in, and the Colonel talked about polo.
-- It would seem that my visit to this remote island should immediately revive my interest in Strickland, but the work I was engaged in occupied my attention to the exclusion of something that was irrelevant, and it was not till I had been there some days that I even remembered his connection with it.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hunters had scarcely entered the bushes when they saw Top engaged in a struggle with an animal which he was holding by the ear.
-- Towards three o'clock the dog disappeared in the brushwood and gruntings showed that he was engaged in a struggle with some animal.
-- Was he engaged in a struggle with some animal whose retreat he had disturbed?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She busied herself immediately in preparing supper, and while she was thus engaged I remarked that the old man took an opportunity of observing me more closely than he had done yet.
-- Occupied with such thoughts as these, and a crowd of others all tending to the same point, I continued to pace the street for two long hours; at length the rain began to descend heavily, and then over-powered by fatigue though no less interested than I had been at first, I engaged the nearest coach and so got home.
-- 'So much the better, Mrs Quilp; these accidental parties are always the pleasantest,' said the dwarf, rubbing his hands so hard that he seemed to be engaged in manufacturing, of the dirt with which they were encrusted, little charges for popguns.
-- He might not have done so even then, but for certain impatient tapping at the door he seemed to denote that some pretty hard knuckles were actively engaged upon the other side.
-- In some of the vessels at anchor all hands were busily engaged in coiling ropes, spreading out sails to dry, taking in or discharging their cargoes; in others no life was visible but two or three tarry boys, and perhaps a barking dog running to and fro upon the deck or scrambling up to look over the side and bark the louder for the view.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was she not engaged to be married?
-- But there was a long wait before her, for the secretary, who was to deliver to the guard the order for her removal, forgetting the prisoners, engaged one of the lawyers in the discussion of an editorial that had appeared in a newspaper.
-- The Ragojhinskys arrived without their children, and engaged the best suite in the best hotel.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil.
-- We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was monstrously touched so would you have been and, out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook.
-- It was long ere I could close an eye, and heaven knows I had matter enough for thought in the man whom I had slain that afternoon, in my own most perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon keeping the mutineers together with one hand and grasping with the other after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You're an engaged man?"
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