enterprising
enterprising 英 [ˈentəpraɪzɪŋ] 美 [ˈentərpraɪzɪŋ]
adj. 有事业心的；有进取心的；有魄力的；有胆量的
- If you are enterprising, you are creative and show initiative. Were you the kid who bought candy before school and sold it during school at a profit? If so, you were an enterprising little one.
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- adj. 有事业心的；有进取心的；有魄力的；有胆量的
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1. But for some enterprising college kids, their time at school was when they stated making their millions.
但是对一些有事业心的大学生来说，他们在大学的时候就已经是百万富翁了。
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2. Such societies, the ones in which young and enterprising people want to live, cannot be conjured up overnight by a single agent, least of all by government.
年轻人和有进取心的人想要生活其中的社会，不可能由单一的代理机构——尤其是政府——一夜之间就像变戏法式地给变出来。
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3. An enterprising reporter, with a deadline to meet, does 60 per cent of the work — and has a rough draft of the story ready — even before the scientist begins to speak.
一位富有进取心、需要赶截稿时间的记者甚至在科学家开始发言之前就做了60%的工作，而且已经有了新闻的一个大致的草稿。
- enterprising (adj.) "eager to undertake, prompt to attempt," 1610s, present-participle adjective from the verb enterprise (late 15c.), from the noun enterprise. Until mid-19c. (at least in Britain) mostly in a bad sense: "scheming, ambitious, foolhardy." Earlier (1560s) as a verbal noun meaning "action of undertaking."
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