| 词组 | engage |
| 释义 | engage Engage may be used with any number of prepositions, but by far it is most often used with in, which in turn is most often followed by a gerund or a noun: • ... but was busily engaged, on the farther side of the piano, in examining a picture —Edith Wharton, New Year's Day, 1924 • The police are engaged in the rounding up of suspects —Anthony Burgess, MF, 1971 • ... where students and scholars engage together in the imaginative exploration of the past —Henry Steele Commager, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 4 Apr. 1954 • ... the reader (whom Miss Piercy does engage in argument, however feverish) —John Updike, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 1971 Less frequently and about equally, engage is used with with or on (upon being a less common variant of on); our files indicate that engage on is chiefly a British usage: • ... he might engage on topics that his brother might like to regard as private —Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post, 1928 • The class under whose work he was engaged on this particular evening —Robertson Davies, Tempest-tost, 1951 • We hurry about in inadequate clothing and are too engaged with fighting to feel the cold —Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek, 1942 • ... he was no longer as actively engaged with his old publishing house —Bennett Cerf, Saturday Rev., 19 Dec. 1953 • I allowed as how I didn't have anything being engaged upon the production of a novel —Flannery O'Connor, letter, 5 Oct. 1957 Engage may be used with to, especially in the familiar "engaged to be married" and "the man she was engaged to" phrases. We also find such other uses with the infinitive as these: • I was engaged to lunch with him in New York — Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Jour., 10 July 1980 • ... the author engages himself to reassess literary reputations —Riley Hughes, New Scholasticism, July 1951 • "Engage somebody to stay with him, or—or send him away?" —Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, 1925 • "... I hope to engage you to be serious likewise." — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 Engage may be used with for: • ... she engaged for the London cast of David Belas-co's production —Current Biography 1949 • Mr. Lorry readily engaged for that, and the conference was ended —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 Engage is also used with by: • ... students trying to force their way ... were engaged by police wielding canes —N.Y. Times, 8 Nov. 1953 • ... students aren't terribly engaged by the majority of courses —Robert S. Powell, Jr., Saturday Rev., 10 Jan. 1970 • ... I was engaged by a newspaper to be its first dance critic —Walter Terry, Saturday Rev., 27 Nov. 1976 and with as: • ... she had engaged herself as a servant —Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell, 1940 |
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