已經被佔用
被許出去的不是人而是一條線或一個空間：現在有人在用，別人得等。
engaged (phone line) · adjective · B1
If a phone line is engaged, the person is already talking to someone else.
佔線的
核心畫面
Picture something already committed — spoken for, taken, in use — so that it cannot be given to anyone else right now. That is engaged. A person can be engaged to one other person, a phone line can be engaged with one other call, a toilet can be engaged by whoever is inside. In each case: already taken, try later.
可以想成：某個東西已經被許出去了——名花有主、有人佔著、正在使用中——所以現在給不了別人。engaged 就是這個狀…更多收起
可以想成：某個東西已經被許出去了——名花有主、有人佔著、正在使用中——所以現在給不了別人。engaged 就是這個狀態。一個人可以被許給另一個人（訂婚），一條電話線可以被另一通電話佔著（佔線），一間廁所可以被裡面的人佔著（使用中）。三種情況說的是同一件事：已經有人了，晚點再來。From the picture
Also in this word
engaged to be married · adjective · B1
Having formally agreed to marry someone.
訂婚的
原始詞典資料10 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。
engagedadj/ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒd/
- 1
Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- 2
Busy or employed.
- Dig if you will the picture / Of you and I engaged in a kiss / The sweat of your body covers me / Can you my darling / Can you picture this?
- 3
Greatly interested.
- 4
(of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- I tried calling, but she (or her phone) was engaged.
- 5
architectureattached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- 6
in contact and in operation
- 7
governmentmilitarypoliticsbeing attacked or attacking
- 8
medicinesciencesHaving the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Black and white women writers assumed their mantle as engaged writers, as cultural and political critics.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。