involve
英[ɪn'vɒlv]
美[ɪn'vɑlv]
- vt. 包含；牵涉；使陷于；潜心于
英英释意
- 1. connect closely and often incriminatingly;
- "This new ruling affects your business"
- 2. engage as a participant;
- "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
- 3. have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail;
- "This decision involves many changes"
- 4. require as useful, just, or proper;
- "It takes nerve to do what she did"
- "success usually requires hard work"
- "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"
- "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"
- "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"
- "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent"
- 5. contain as a part;
- "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
- 6. wrap;
- "The tower was involved in mist"
- 7. occupy or engage the interest of;
- "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
- 8. make complex or intricate or complicated;
- "The situation was rather involved"