En.ter.prise

enterprise的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈentəˌpraiz]
KK音标发音： [ˈɛntɚˌpraɪz]

enterprise的词性：
NONE（无词性）

1. A city of southeast Alabama south-southeast of Montgomery. It is a processing and manufacturing center. Population, 20,123.
恩特普赖斯：阿拉巴马东南一城市，位于蒙哥马利东南偏南，加工业和制造业中心。人口20,123

en.ter.prise

enterprise的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈentəˌpraiz]
KK音标发音： [ˈɛntɚˌpraɪz]

enterprise的词性：
n.（名词）

1. 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

2. A business organization.
企业：商业机构

3. Industrious, systematic activity, especially when directed toward profit:
干事业：勤奋，有系统的活动，尤为以获得利益为目的：

Private enterprise is basic to capitalism.
私营是资本主义的基础

4. Willingness to undertake new ventures; initiative:
进取心：愿意冒新的危险；进取的：

“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·索罗)

enterprise的词源：

5. Middle English
中古英语

6. 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]

7. entre- [between] from Latin inter- * see inter-
entre- [在…中间] 源自 拉丁语 inter- *参见 inter-

8. prendre [to take] from Latin prendere * see ghend-
prendre [取，拿] 源自 拉丁语 prendere *参见 ghend-

enterprise的词性：
n.（名词）