They are engaged in talks with the Irish government.
他们正忙着与爱尔兰政府谈判。
They were engaged in conversation.
他们正谈得来劲。
He is now engaged on his second novel.
他正埋头写他的第二部小说。
I can't come to dinner on Tuesday─I'm otherwise engaged(= I have already arranged to do something else) .
我星期二不能来参加宴会，我有别的安排。
When did you get engaged ?
你们什么时候订的婚？
an engaged couple
已订婚的一对
She's engaged to Peter.
她与彼得订了婚。
They are engaged to be married(= to each other) .
他们已经订婚。
I couldn't get through─the line's engaged.
我打不通电话，线路忙。
I phoned earlier but you were engaged(= using your phone) .
我早先打过电话，但你那边占线。
the engaged tone/signal
忙音；占线信号
1.“engage”的过去式和过去分词
1.involved in doing something
2.if two people are engaged, they have formally agreed to get married
3.if a telephone line is engaged, it is busy
1.The past tense and past participle of engage
1.Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.
你的姐妹们都在跟别人跳，要是叫舞场里别的女人跟我跳，没有一个不叫我活受罪的。
2.In a luxury car, Mortdecai sighs that "the gears engaged in a way which reminded me of a warm spoon going in to a great deal of caviar. "
在豪车中，Mortdecai感叹说，“齿轮印记提醒我从事于鱼子酱一样温暖的环境中去。”
3.Travelling cheaply has forced me to be engaged and creative, rather than to throw money at my holidays and hope for the best.
节俭地旅行迫使我变得投入且富有创造力，而不是挥霍金钱来度假以期得到最佳享受。
4.The Scottish government engaged Libya and the United Kingdom on the matter of releasing al-Megrahi.
苏格兰政府也参与了利比亚和英国释放迈格拉希事件。
5.Nasty cast as basketball stopped shooting skills of a offensive strong score by means of each layer, engaged in basketball highly valued.
急停跳投作为篮球运动投篮技术中的一项攻击性很强的得分手段，遭到各层从事篮球运动的高度注重。
6.The next time I played I was alone, more experienced at the game, and I engaged in a more methodical massacre of the dungeon hordes.
第二次我试玩是一个人，同时也对游戏更有经验，我忙于对迷宫中怪物更有效率的屠杀。
7.A company I'm engaged with has found a specific piece of the H spike flu that sparks the immune system.
我之前工作过家公司已经发现一种H刺突流感病毒。这种病毒能激发免疫系统。
8.I have engaged Myself in the Earthly matters NOW, not because its necessary, and yet it is in many ways, even impossible not to be the case.
我【现在】已经介入到地球事务中，不只是因为它是必要的，而且在很多方面来讲，而且是势在必行的。
9.China has in the past engaged in invasions and wars in the region, and its presence is still felt to be something of a strategic threat.
中国已经在该地区的侵略和战争中从事过去，还是觉得它的存在，是作为一个战略威胁的东西。
10.The father of the baby is now engaged to my best friend, whom he was cheating on me with when I became pregnant.
孩子他爸当初已经和我最佳的友人定亲，在我怀孕的时候他始终和她有一腿。