engaged

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en·gaged /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒd/ adjectiveadj

1 MARRYif two people are engaged, they have agreed to marry 已订婚的

Have you heard? Sally and Ray are getting engaged.

你听说了吗？萨莉和雷要订婚了。

She is engaged to be married.

她已经订婚了。

engaged to

Kate’s engaged to Mark.

凯特和马克订婚了。

n Grammar

You are or get engaged to someone:

He is engaged to a lovely woman.

✗Don’t say: He is engaged with a lovely woman.

► see thesaurus at married

2 British EnglishBrE if you call someone on the telephone and their line is engaged, they are already speaking to someone else 电话占线的 SYN American English busy

She rang Mrs Tavett but the line was engaged.

她打电话给塔韦特夫人，但电话占线。

engaged tone/signal (=the sound you hear when the phone is engaged) 〔电话占线的〕忙音

3. BUSY/NOT AVAILABLE British EnglishBrE written a public toilet that is engaged is being used 〔公共厕所〕使用中的 OPP vacant

4. be otherwise engaged formalBUSY/NOT AVAILABLE to be unable to do something because you are doing something else 另外有约，另外有事

Examples from the Corpus

be otherwise engaged• Duffy, who was otherwise engaged, has been replaced by another actor.• The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.• The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.• This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.

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engaged• They spent all their time together, as country people do once they are engaged.• Fortunately the Caring Chauvinist was away the following day, but Ricky's number was always engaged.• We got engaged at Christmas.• My lungs suddenly come sharply through from behind my engaged brain, reminding me that I am not a fish.• Todd and Ellen have been engaged for about 3 months now.• They've been engaged for six months.• Nick was out, Joey was engaged, Jim was just making coffee and why didn't I come over.• Such politically engaged postmodernism is rarer in Britain than elsewhere.• Unless the number is engaged, the ringing pulses will be felt. 3.• You'll be glad to hear that Ralph and I, with my father's consent, are engaged to be married.• He's engaged to Paul's sister.

getting engaged• If that is what getting engaged does to him, the pity is that we live in a monogamous society!• Perhaps their Annie was getting engaged, he thought.• I can't help getting engaged on the human scale, minimal though this is, fight it though I do.• No, he hadn't actually said anything about getting engaged yet.

line ... engaged• After that she rang Mrs Tavett but the line was engaged.• He had tried to telephone his wife once, but without success: the line was engaged.• Telephone lines are often engaged and call charges can be high.

From Longman Business Dictionary

engageden·gaged /ɪnˈgeɪdʒd/ adjectiveadj British EnglishBrE

a telephone that is engaged is being usedSYN AmE busy

I can’t get through — her line’s engaged.

Every time I call I get the engaged tone (=the sound you hear when the telephone is engaged).

en·gaged adjectiveadj →n GRAMMAR1

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