Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

The two brothers in the mask engaged in that philosophical debate about the force, or the strength, of virginity.

戏中的两兄弟曾为,贞洁的力量这一哲学问题争论过。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The student body is generally very engaged in politics or different events and causes

学生们大致上都积极参与政治事务，以及其他的活动。

被学问的自由所迷住 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And I think if you are outside, whether you are walking or sitting, paying attention as a spiritual practice is really not only seeing, but having all of your senses engaged in what's going on is important.

我想如果你在户外，无论是走，或是坐，作为感受灵性的实践,所谓的注意，并不仅仅是看，而是调动你所有的感官,来感受身边的一切，这才是要点。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.

最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Well, crossword puzzles aren't a very deep subject, and we might wonder whether or not we would do better if we were engaged in something more mentally challenging than that.

填字游戏不算很深奥的东西，我们也不知道自己能否做得更好,如果我们去做,比填字游戏更富挑战性的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He says,"provincials are like mold, burrowing in their little plots, or frogs at the bottom of their puddles, engaged in sordid, trivial rivalries, moved by petty jealousies, avarice and material interests.

他说,乡下人就像模子里刻出来的,在他们的自留地里乱挖一气,或者在泥浆里面挖青蛙,从事着肮脏,没什么竞争性的工作,为嫉妒,贪婪和物欲所驱动

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Presumably, these are activities that are all engaged in risk taking behavior of one kind or another that seem not to be able to be explained by Hobbes' law of nature alone.

大体来说，这些活动都,与冒险的行为有关,而这些行为并不能仅仅为,霍布斯的自然法所解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This was, again, the thesis of the classical republicans according to which we are only fully human, or we only become fully human, when we are engaged in political life, in ruling ourselves by laws of our own making.

这再一次印证了典型共和派的的宗旨,根据于我们是完全的人，我们要变成完全的人，当我们被牵扯到政治生活中，我们用我们自己制造的法律来统治自己。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选