en.ter.prise
n.(名词)An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk.事业:一项事业,尤其指一项雄心勃勃、复杂、且具危险性的事业A business organization.企业:商业机构Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit:创业:勤奋,有系统的活动,尤为以获得利益为目的:例句:Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.私营是资本主义的基础
Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative:进取心:愿意冒新的危险;进取的:例句:.Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.(Henry David Thoreau).由于缺乏进取心和信仰,人类始终驻足不前,或买或卖,过着农奴般的生活.(亨利·戴维·梭罗)
来源:Middle English 中古英语 from Old French entreprise [from past participle of] entreprendre [to undertake] 源自 古法语 entreprise [] 源自entreprendre的过去分词 [承担] entre- [between] from Latin inter- * see inter- entre- [在…中间] 源自 拉丁语 inter- *参见 inter-prendre [to take] from Latin prendere * see ghend- prendre [取,拿] 源自 拉丁语 prendere *参见 ghend-
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en.terpris.er
n.(名词)