"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

her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I want you to be engaged in whatever it is that we are discussing in class.

充分参与课堂讨论。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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

We also have active visualizations because there's a lot of research showing that if you're actively engaged in something that solidifies the learning objectives we're taking home.

我们同时也有主动性直观化,因为很多研究结果表明,如果你积极地参与,到一些使学习目标具体化,的活动中去的话,便能真正理解它。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"we have said that this is a dual track effort there has been an engagement track which we have been very actively engaged in, but there is also a pressure track,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

It's not a debate that we're going to be engaged in here in this semester.

这不是辩论,是我们在这里在这个学期要做的。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And with respect to the announcement that occurred when the vice president was there, we've expressed our dismay and disappointment and we have, as I said earlier engaged in consultations with our partners in the peace effort - the Israelis and the Palestinians - about the way forward."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

On the other hand, guys who were engaged in a fight of the kind we must imagine get very angry; these guys killed a buddy next to you.

另一方面,人们在这样的战争中作战,敌人杀死了身边的战友,我们可以想象他的愤怒

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

"But unlike a lot of more traditional education, where it is a lecture, everything that we do is experiential, so we put young people into situations where they can actually be engaged in an activity; for example, starting their own mini-student experience those same challenges that we as adults would have when we start a business.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

It poses other kinds of difficulty, let's say; but in the case of fiction, in order to be engaged, in order to enter the hermeneutic circle properly, we need the element of surprise, as I say, as a way of distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction.

它的确带来了其它困难，我们可以这样说;,但是在读文学时，为了投入进去，为了合适地进入解释循环，我们需要“惊讶“这个元素，正如我所说，作为区分文学和非文学的一点。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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

And the reason I was able to do that and keep with what my original intentions were was to have a career that was the fulfilling, in terms of helping people and being engaged in science, is all of a sudden I realized, as chemists, we can think about better ways to build molecules that are important for making medications.

我能够这么做,并且能不和我原来的打算冲突,是因为我的职业很有意义，能帮助他人，又和科学相关,于是突然我意思到，作为一个化学家,我们可以思考出更好的办法,制造出在制药方面十分有用的分子。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

For the first half of the course, we've been engaged in metaphysics,broadly speaking.

这个课程的前半部分，我们广义地探讨了形而上学。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

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

Now, what we learn, both from archaeology and from references in the Linear B tablets is that they engaged-- these cultures engaged in trade to a significant degree.

现在,我们从考古学,以及B类线形文字刻板中的线索得知,这些文明中具有相当多的贸易因素

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选