| 单词 | otherwise engaged |
| 释义 | otherwise engagedotherwise engaged 1 formalBUSY/NOT AVAILABLE to be unable to do something because you are doing something else 另外有约，另外有事 Examples from the Corpus be otherwise engaged• Duffy, who was otherwise engaged, has been replaced by another actor.• The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.• The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.• This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged. → be otherwise engaged at engaged(1) 2 formalBUSY/NOT AVAILABLE busy doing something else 忙于别的事情 I’m afraid I will be otherwise engaged that day. 恐怕那天我要忙别的事情。 Examples from the Corpus otherwise engaged• Oonagh was beautiful, but I was ... otherwise engaged.• The people in the town who may need a spot of positive thinking more than anybody else will be otherwise engaged.• The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.• This satisfies him and allows the other adventurers to run and escape automatically while the Champion is otherwise engaged.• They were eating, sleeping, defecating, or otherwise engaged in some momentous enterprise. → otherwise engaged at otherwise(3) |
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