投入、被吸住
把齒輪換成人：你跟一件事、一個人接上了，注意力和時間就跟著轉進去。差別只在是誰先接上——是你投入，還是那件事把你吸住。
take part · verb · C1
To take part in an activity, or start being involved in it.
從事／參與
核心畫面
One way to picture engage: two gear teeth sliding until they catch, and from that moment the two parts move together. Nothing happens while they only sit near each other — engaging is the moment contact is made and something starts turning. People, attention, work and even armies get described with that same catching-and-turning picture.
可以想成 engage 是兩個齒輪滑到咬住的那一刻：咬上之前只是靠在一起，什麼也沒發生；咬上之後，兩邊就一起轉了。人…更多收起
可以想成 engage 是兩個齒輪滑到咬住的那一刻：咬上之前只是靠在一起，什麼也沒發生；咬上之後，兩邊就一起轉了。人跟活動、注意力跟內容、雇主跟工人，甚至兩支軍隊，英文都用這個「接上就開始一起動」的畫面來講。From the picture
把人請進來做事
接上的是雇主和工作者：談定之後，那個人就被接進這件工作裡，開始跟著一起轉。
hire · verb · C1
To pay someone to do a particular job for you.
聘僱
Also in this word
engage (mechanism) · verb · C1
If a part of a machine engages, it fits into another part so they work together.
咬合／接上
engage the enemy · verb · C1
To begin fighting an enemy.
交戰
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
engageverb/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/
- 1
To interact socially.
- Thus ſhall mankind his guardian care engage, / The promis'd father of the future age.
- 2
To interact socially.
- the difficult task of engaging him in conversation
- Shapps refused to engage with the unions and claimed that the industrial disputes were nothing to do with him, despite controlling the purse strings.
- 3
To interact socially.
- This humanity and good nature engages every body to him, so that when he is pleasant upon any of them all his family are in a good humour, and none so much as the person whom he diverts himself with: […]
- 4
To interact antagonistically.
- 1698-1699, Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs a favourable opportunity of engaging the enemy
- Having failed to become the first warship to shoot down another planet, the fleet would then engage the Italian cruiser screen the next afternoon, with Sydney not scoring any hits on its opposite numbers but managing to damage an Italian destroyer.
- 5
To interact antagonistically.
- 6
To interact contractually.
- For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
- Rich Jews used to engage Christian music-teachers to teach their daughters German vocal and instrumental music.
- 7
To interact contractually.
- 8
To interact contractually.
- They were engaged last month! They're planning to have the wedding next year.
- […] Love is a ſort of Devotion too, and not only ſhould beget Reſpect, but likevviſe ingage Patience.
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteTo interact contractually.
- Thou that doest liue in later times, must wage / Thy workes for wealth, and life for gold engage.
- 10
To interact mechanically.
- Whenever I engage the clutch, the car stalls out.
- The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.
- 11
engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo interact mechanically.
- The teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another.
- 12
To interact mechanically.
- He engaged the lock on the door.
- The lock engaged automatically when the door was shut.
- 13
obsoleteTo entangle.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。