"Read the first few sentences of what you've got," he remarked. Ernestine obeyed. To all appearance the man was engrossed in his own work, but when she paused he nodded his head appreciatively. "It'll do!" he said. "Don't try to polish it. Give it down, and see that the proofs are submitted to me. Where's the sketch?"
She held it out to him. For a moment he looked away from his own work and took the opportunity to light a fresh cigarette.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
I looked round. There was no Raffles to respond. We had all. three been examining the photographs at one of the windows; at another three newcomers were similarly engrossed; and without one word, or a single sound, Raffles had decamped behind all. our backs.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
The Declaration thus signed on the 4th, on paper was engrossed on parchment, & signed again on the 2d. of August.英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
Perchance he is some vulgar man,
Engrossed in pounds s. But, ah! through Nature's holy plan
He whispered hope to me!英文原著 · 《Ban and Arriere Ban》
During those spells of heartsickness he would sit all the evening and smoke and stare at some object which his mind failed to register. Cash would sit and watch him furtively; but Bud was too engrossed with his own misery to notice it. Then, quite unexpectedly, reaction would come and leave Bud in a peace that was more than half a torpid refusal of his mind to worry much over anything.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
But this was not for long. As I behold her so regardless of her own interests, which I had jeopardised and was now endeavouring to recover, I redoubled my own coldness in the manner of a lesson to the girl. The more she came forward, the farther I drew back; the more she betrayed the closeness of our intimacy, the more pointedly civil I became, until even her father (if he had not been so engrossed with eating) might have observed the opposition. In the midst of which, of a sudden, she became wholly changed, and I told myself, with a good deal of relief, that she had took the hint at last.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
I'm not 100 percent watching because I'm so engrossed in the second screen experience, but according to the second screen experience, other people are loving the show.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》