[7分58秒] 疯狂动物城英语听力精选：零基础看电影学英语

名词倡议; 主动性; 主动权; 主动精神

形容词自发的; 创始的; 初步的

1. 积极的行动;倡议
An initiative is an important act or statement that is intended to solve a problem.

e.g. Government initiatives to help young people have been inadequate...
政府在积极帮助年轻人方面做得还不够。
e.g. There's talk of a new peace initiative.
传闻有可能提出新的和平倡议。

2. 主动权
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.

e.g. We have the initiative; we intend to keep it...
我们拥有主动权;我们不打算放弃它。
e.g. He paused enough to consider the options but never so long as to lose the initiative.
他停顿了一会儿权衡自己有哪些选项,但并没有久到丧失主动权。

3. 主动性;积极性;进取心
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.

e.g. She was disappointed by his lack of initiative.
她对他缺少进取心感到失望。
e.g. ...workers who are able to sort out problems on their own initiative.
能主动解决问题的工人

4. 采取主动;首先采取行动
If you take the initiative in a situation, you are the first person to act, and are therefore able to control the situation.

e.g. We must take the initiative in the struggle to end the war...
为尽早结束战争,我们必须抢先行动。
e.g. She knew she had to take the initiative and maintain an aggressive game throughout.
她知道自己必须采取主动，并且始终保持咄咄逼人的态势。

形容词自豪的，得意的; 光荣的，高尚的; 傲慢的; 有自尊心的

1. 骄傲的；自豪的；得意的
If you feel proud, you feel pleased about something good that you possess or have done, or about something good that a person close to you has done.

e.g. I felt proud of his efforts...
我为他的努力感到骄傲。
e.g. They are proud that she is doing well at school...
他们为她出色的学习成绩感到骄傲。

名词制止物; 威慑物

形容词制止的; 遏制的

1. 威慑力量;威慑因素;遏制物
A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it.

e.g. They seriously believe that capital punishment is a deterrent...
他们真的相信死刑具有威慑作用。
e.g. The tough new law should act as a deterrent.
这项严厉的新法将起到威慑作用。

2. 威慑武器
A deterrent is a weapon or set of weapons designed to prevent enemies from attacking by making them afraid to do so.

e.g. ...a nuclear deterrent.
核威慑武器

3. 威慑的;吓阻的;遏制的
If something has a deterrent effect, it has the effect of preventing people from doing certain things.

e.g. Hopefully, that will have a deterrent effect on drug syndicates in the future.
希望这能在将来对贩毒集团起到威慑作用。
e.g. ...his belief in the deterrent value of capital punishment.
他相信死刑的威慑力