DECISIONS 决定, [U] the ability to make decisions and take action without waiting for someone to tell you what to do

自主决断的能力; 主动性:

I wish my son would show more initiative .

我希望我的儿子能表现得再主动一些。

Don't keep asking me for advice. Use your initiative .

别老是要我给你出主意，发挥一下你自己的决断能力吧。

Lt. Carlos was not obeying orders. He acted on his own initiative (=he was not told what to do) .

卡洛斯中尉没有服从命令，而是自己作主。

PLAN 计划, [C] an important new plan or process to achieve a particular aim or to solve a particular problem

计划; 措施:

a government initiative to help exporters

扶助出口商的政府计划

an education initiative

一项教育倡议

a new initiative for peace in the Middle East

保障中东和平的新措施

CONTROL 控制, the initiative if you have or take the initiative, you are in a position to control a situation and decide what to do next

主动权:

Why don't you take the initiative and ask him out?

为什么你不主动请他外出约会呢？

Politicians need to seize the initiative from the terrorists.

政治家需要对恐怖分子采取主动。

The government must not lose the initiative in the fight against terrorism.

政府在打击恐怖主义方面不能失去主动权。

LAW 法律, [C] [law] a process by which ordinary citizens can officially suggest a change in the law by signing a PETITION

公民提案程序〔签名提出修改法律〕