名词

1. 约会;约定
An engagement is an arrangement that you have made to do something at a particular time.

2. 婚约
An engagement is an agreement that two people have made with each other to get married.

3. 订婚期
You can refer to the period of time during which two people are engaged as their engagement .

4. 交战;战斗
A military engagement is an armed conflict between two enemies.

5. see also: engage

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: battleconflictfight

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: participationinvolvementinvolution

5. a mutual promise to marry

Synonym: betrothaltroth

6. contact by fitting together

e.g. the engagement of the clutch
the meshing of gears

Synonym: meshmeshinginterlocking

7. a meeting arranged in advance

e.g. she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date

Synonym: dateappointment