initiate
initiate 英 [ɪˈnɪʃieɪt] 美 [ɪˈnɪʃieɪt]
vt. 开始，发起；使加入
进行时:initiating 过去式:initiated 过去分词:initiated 第三人称单数:initiates 名词复数:initiates
- If you press the red button, you'll activate weapons of mass destruction and initiate a global war. As a verb, initiate means to start. As a noun, initiate (short "a") means to be part of a group.
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- vt. 开始，发起；使加入
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1. to initiate legal proceedings against sb
对某人提起诉讼
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2. The government has initiated a programme of economic reform.
政府已开始实施经济改革方案。
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3. Many of them had been initiated into drug use at an early age.
他们中有很多人在早年就被教会了吸毒。
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4. Hundreds are initiated into the sect each year.
每年有好几百人被接纳到这个教派中。
- initiate (n.) "one who has been initiated" (in secret doctrines, etc.), 1732, from obsolete or archaic past-participle adjective initiate "initiated, instructed in secret knowledge" (c. 1600), from Latin initiatus (see initiate (v.)).
- initiate (v.) c. 1600, "introduce to some practice or system," also "begin, set going," from Late Latin initiatus, past participle of initiare "to begin, originate," in classical Latin only in the sense "to instruct in mysteries or sacred knowledge." This is from initium "a beginning; an entrance," also in plural initia "constituent parts; sacred mysteries," a noun use of the neuter past participle of inire "to go into, enter upon, begin," from in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + ire "to go" (from PIE root *ei- "to go").
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