to initiate

基本解释

I’ve found email is a good way to initiate contact, but once a conversation starts it’s a bad medium.
我发现电子信函是发起联系的好方法，但是一旦交流开始，它就是一个很糟糕的工具。
This first such meeting, hosted by WHO in Geneva, was held to initiate implementation of the Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol.
首次召开了这样的会议，由世卫组织在日内瓦主办，目的是为了开始实施减少有害使用酒精全球战略。
Specifically, if we feel that a cultural change is needed in our organization, is a technological change a good strategy by which to initiate the change?
特别是，如果我们觉得我们的组织需要一次文化变革，通过技术变革发起变革是否是一个好的策略？

"We run temperatures according to what helps them initiate flower buds.
We're going to come back and talk about the action potential a little bit more when we talk about how the heart works, because the heart when its contracting, the muscle cells also use action potentials to initiate contraction.
我们讲心脏工作原理时,会回头再多讨论一点动作电位,因为心脏收缩时,肌肉细胞也利用动作电位来启动收缩
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Now I'm learning technology to initiate this thread at the Sloan School of Management.
我现在在学习技术,以便在Sloan管理学院进行教学。
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It should offer to initiate diplomatic relations, with the two countries exchanging small missions.
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倡导
China promotes not only to establish human-based, coordinated and sustainable scientific development theory. but also to initiate to build harmonious society. The practice is consistent with the spirit of social responsibility.
中国提出建立以人为本、全面协调、可持续的科学发展观,并倡导构建和谐社会,这从精神上与企业社会责任运动的原则是相一致的。