Initiative
[ɪ'nɪʃɪətɪv;-ʃə-] or [ɪ'nɪʃətɪv]
解释:
(a.) Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
(n.) An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins.
(n.) The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives.
校对:马特
同义词及近义词:
a. Inceptive, initiatory.
n. Beginning, first step.
编辑:特鲁迪
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Start, leadership, commencement, example
ANT:Wake, rear, prosecution, termination
欧文录入
例句:
- The enemy, however, had taken the initiative. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Personal initiative and individual genius are poorly regarded: many socialists are suspicious of originality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- These are such as in my experience have aroused the greatest interest and initiative, and such as have at the same time given the maximum benefit from the informational standpoint. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- But it is a caricature of democracy to make it also the law of individual initiative. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Whatever initiative and imaginative vision he possesses will be called into play and control his impulses and habits. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And he imitates the means because he wishes, on his own behalf, as part of his own initiative, to take an effective part in the game. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Active habits involve thought, invention, and initiative in applying capacities to new aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I was anxious that the rebels should not take the initiative in the morning, and therefore ordered Hancock to make an assault at 4. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The real value of a book depends not so much upon the information given as upon the permanent interest stimulated and the initiative aroused. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- You see my initiative doesn't go beyond putting myself at your disposal. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Under these circumstances I hesitated about allowing the initiative to be taken. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- You hear it said that the initiative and referendum are a return to the New England town meeting. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The initiative and referendum will help: they are a method of voting on definite issues instead of electing an administration in bulk. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And the rigid examination system that killed all intellectual initiatives has been destroyed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Unco-ordinated human initiatives lead to nothing but social chaos. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is this life-sapping quality of our politics that should be fought--its wanton waste of the initiatives we have--its stupid indifference. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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