Initiation
[ɪ,nɪʃɪ'eɪʃn] or [ɪ,nɪʃɪ'eʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; 'she looked forward to her initiation as an adult'; 'the foundation of a new scientific society'.
(noun.) a formal entry into an organization or position or office; 'his initiation into the club'; 'he was ordered to report for induction into the army'; 'he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame'.
西莉亚手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.
(n.) The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
编辑:丽诺尔
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Introduction, admission, entrance.[2]. Instruction, indoctrination.[3]. Beginning, inauguration.
整理:梅尔巴
例句:
- Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Learning was not indeed so complete a withdrawal from ordinary life as initiation into a priesthood, but it was still something in that nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It struck her as providential that she should be the instrument of his initiation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The latter interest generally involves much greater intellectual initiation and larger survey of conditions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- At his initiation he went beneath a scaffolding on which the bull was killed, and the blood ran down on him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Just because the studies of the curriculum represent standard factors in social life, they are organs of initiation into social values. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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