Enterprise
['entəpraɪz] or ['ɛntɚ'praɪz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); 'he had doubts about the whole enterprise'.
(noun.) readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
(noun.) an organization created for business ventures; 'a growing enterprise must have a bold leader'.
錄入:帕特里斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
(n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.
(v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
(v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
(v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
格里菲思校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Undertaking, adventure, venture, attempt, effort, essay, endeavor, cause.[2]. Energy, activity, efficiency, force of character.
埃米莉錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ADVENTURE]
錄入:赖安
解釋/意思:
n. that which is attempted: a bold or dangerous undertaking: an adventure: daring.—v.t. to undertake.—n. En′terpriser an adventurer.—p.adj. En′terprising forward in undertaking: adventurous.—adv. En′terprisingly.
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例句/造句/用法:
- How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow; yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was acutely conscious that this was an enterprise too great for any one man, and he used his utmos t endeavors to induce James I to become the patron of the plan. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He has fallen off from neither, said Waldemar Fitzurse; and since it may not better be, I will take on me the conduct of this perilous enterprise. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Wealthy men had to come together to create an enterprise; credit and plant, that is to say, Capital, were required. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But its use had been growing; it was providing a fluid medium for trade and enterprise, and changing economic conditions profoundly. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When younger, said he, I felt as if I were destined for some great enterprise. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In 1824 the Enterprise, an English steamer, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and went to India. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Thus, for the second time, did Mr. Pickwick's innate good-feeling involve him in an enterprise from which he would most willingly have stood aloof. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- In this business Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler was associated with Mr. Wilson, and the well-known Wheeler & Wilson machines are the result of their enterprise and ingenuity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Day after tomorrow is the bridge and this man is bad and he constitutes a danger to the success of the whole enterprise. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You don't feel at all shaken, Mr. Jennings, in respect to this medical enterprise of yours? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Through his extraordinary energy and enterprise the business made enormous strides, and Mr. Rathenau has become one of the most conspicuous industrial figures in his native country. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Private enterprise ruled in many matters of common concern, because political corruption made collective enterprise impossible. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Sir Knight, answered Rowena, in enterprises such as yours, the real dishonour lies not in failure, but in success. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Contemporaneously, he and his force of men were very busily engaged day and night on other important enterprises and inventions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The political enterprises of the papacy necessitated an increasing demand for money. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The missionary enterprises of the papacy in Mongolia ended in failure. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Both these enterprises were doomed to failure by the nature of things. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The financial aspect of these enterprises is often overlooked and forgotten. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These were absorbed in enterprises already existing, and were the means of assisting their rapid growth and expansion, particularly the telephone industry. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This belief was the stronger because the manufacturing enterprises belonged personally to Mr. Edison and not to his company. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Both relied successfully upon the power of the written word to link great multitudes of diverse men together in common enterprises. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This is perhaps the right place at which to refer to the matter, as it belongs in the list of his financial or commercial enterprises. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Its programme was faithfully carried out--a thing which surprised me, for great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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