initiative
n. 主動性; 主動精神; 倡議; 主動權
An initiative is an important act or statement that is intended to solve a problem.
Government initiatives to help young people have been inadequate...
政府在積極幫助年輕人方面做得還不夠。
There's talk of a new peace initiative.
傳聞有可能提出新的和平倡議。
In a fight or contest, if you have the initiative, you are in a better position than your opponents to decide what to do next.
We have the initiative; we intend to keep it...
我們擁有主動權;我們不打算放棄它。
He paused enough to consider the options but never so long as to lose the initiative.
他停頓了一會兒權衡自己有哪些選項,但並沒有久到喪失主動權。
If you have initiative, you have the ability to decide what to do next and to do it, without needing other people to tell you what to do.
She was disappointed by his lack of initiative.
她對他缺少進取心感到失望。
...workers who are able to sort out problems on their own initiative.
能主動解決問題的工人
If you take the initiative in a situation, you are the first person to act, and are therefore able to control the situation.
We must take the initiative in the struggle to end the war...
為儘早結束戰爭,我們必須搶先行動。
She knew she had to take the initiative and maintain an aggressive game throughout.
她知道自己必須採取主動,並且始終保持咄咄逼人的態勢。
1. readiness to embark on bold new ventures
2. the first of a series of actions;
1. serving to set in motion;
on one's own initiative
主動地
take (或 seize) the initiative
帶頭,採取主動
on (one's) own initiative
自主的:沒有他人的慫勇或指導的;自己做主的
He's got no initiative in his work.
他在工作上沒有主動性.
The captain took the initiative and led the soldiers out of the danger area.
上尉主動帶領戰士撤出了危險區.
He studies on his own initiative.
他學習很自覺.
Both central and local initiative should be brought into play.
發揮中央和地方兩個積極性.
In an unprecedented action, the army, on its own initiative, arrested seventeen civilians.
軍隊竟然擅自逮捕了17個平民, 這種行為簡直是前所未有.