| 单词 | enterprise |
| 释义 | en·ter·prise I. also en·ter·prize 1. a. < his friends judged his novel enterprise to be impractical and urged him to forget it > b. < indicate the … important enterprises in which he had been engaged, probably battles, expeditions, or treaties of peace — W.A.Mason > < his new enterprise, a restaurant on Fifth avenue, met with complete failure > < exploring the English character has long been a favorite enterprise of literary men — H.S.Commager > < a military enterprise of major scope > c. < an old enterprise specializing in scientific textbooks — Current Biological > < proposed to encourage the growth of small independent enterprises > d. < agriculture is the principal economic enterprise among these people > < history, more than any other literary enterprise, puts the writer in the debt of other people — J.K.Galbraith > < the … problem of the nature of philosophy and the philosophical enterprise itself — J.E.Smith > 2. < the public rarely shows enterprise when in search of entertainment — Tyrone Guthrie > < complained of his lack of enterprise > II. transitive verb < new churches are being enterprised in every area in America — Time > intransitive verb archaic |
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