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1. Owing to a previous engagement, I shan't be able to come.
因事先另有约会，我无法前来。
2. My brother has just told me about his engagement to Anne.
我弟弟刚告诉我他和安妮订婚了。
3. Jack and Amy invited many friends to their engagement party.
杰克和艾咪邀请了许多朋友参加他们的订婚晚会。
4. I have an engagement with him this afternoon.
今天午后我和他有个约会。
5. He has only enough money to meet his engagements.
他的钱刚够付约定的款项。
1. 约会：我约会(engagement)过的人中,最有钱的年薪 25万,这似乎是我的上限. 要住进纽约中心公园以西的高尚住宅区,年薪25万远远不够. 我是来诚心诚意请教的. 有几个(couple)具体的问题:一、有钱的单身汉一般都在哪里消磨时光?
2. 订婚：此外对四个重要时刻:第一次见面(First meeting),订婚(Engagement),结婚(Wedding),喜筵(Reception)各精选了两张照片,贴在A4纸上,配上简短解释,附在申请表后面.
1. 约会;约定
An engagement is an arrangement that you have made to do something at a particular time.
e.g. He had an engagement at a restaurant in Greek Street at eight.
他8点在希腊街的一个餐厅有个约会。
e.g. ...business-related social engagements.
与公事有关的社交约会
2. 婚约
An engagement is an agreement that two people have made with each other to get married.
e.g. I've broken off my engagement to Arthur...
我已经解除了与阿瑟的婚约。
e.g. Announcing our engagement was a relief.
宣布婚约让我们松了一口气。
3. 订婚期
You can refer to the period of time during which two people are engaged as their engagement .
e.g. I felt our engagement was quite an unhappy time.
我觉得我们订婚期间非常不愉快。
4. 交战;战斗
A military engagement is an armed conflict between two enemies.
e.g. The constitution prohibits them from military engagement on foreign soil.
宪法禁止他们在外国采取军事行动。
5. see also: engage
1. Catherine also wasn't required to call William " sir " up until their engagement like Diana was asked to do.
2. The SPP had called for public engagement to ensure transparency of prosecutorial bodies'supervision and its law enforcement procedure.
3. Giuliani has attended all five previous September 11 commemorations but this is the Republican's first engagement as a presidential candidate seeking the White House.
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4. The business leader and social activist clearly believes it is possible to have human engagement that delivers hard numbers.
5. Some fencing enthusiasts believe its complete engagement of body and mind can even teach lessons that carry over into all aspects of life.
6. Young Japanese golf star and heartthrob Ryo Ishikawa disappointed legions of female admirers by announcing his engagement to his childhood sweetheart.
7. Beijing industrial and commercial authorities have suspended the license of a company claiming to sell land on the moon for engagement in speculation and profiteering.
8. A policy paper issued by the European Commission on China last October signaled the EU's wish to further intensify its comprehensive engagement with China.
9. The crisis has also reminded CEOs of the importance of engaging their people - 43 percent will concentrate on staff morale and employee engagement programs.
10. engagement的反义词
10. Increasing economic engagement has not been able to boost confidence at the bilateral level as far as India and China are concerned.
noun
1. employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time
e.g. the play had bookings throughout the summer
Synonym: booking
2. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
e.g. Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Synonym: battle conflict fight
3. the act of giving someone a job
Synonym: employment
4. the act of sharing in the activities of a group
e.g. the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities
Synonym: participation involvement involution
5. a mutual promise to marry
6. engagement
6. contact by fitting together
e.g. the engagement of the clutch
the meshing of gears
Synonym: mesh meshing interlocking
7. a meeting arranged in advance
e.g. she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
Synonym: date appointment