Initiate

(noun.) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; 'it is very familiar to the initiate'.

(noun.) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field.

(verb.) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; 'This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants'.

(verb.) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; 'African men are initiated when they reach puberty'.

丹整理

• She looked at him and saw him, and knew that he was initiate as she was initiate. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• What they initiate, others imitate. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But once this inertia has been overcome and movement is under way they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Thus, there has been initiated the development of a new and important industry whose possible ultimate proportions are beyond the range of present calculation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I accepted the invitation; was initiated; attended a meeting just one week later, and never went to another afterwards. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The character and good faith of Nicholas II, who initiated these Hague gatherings, we will not discuss at any length here. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• What is here insisted upon is the necessity of an actual empirical situation as the initiating phase of thought. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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