商务英语：今日热词——激发
《财富》（中文版）
2016年07月07日
EXAMPLE: Confident and outspoken, our new young company president seeks to instigate many significant changes at our old and very traditional institution.
公司年轻而自信的新总裁想在我们这家老迈而非常守旧的机构里激起很多重大的
变革。
今日单词：
| 单词 | instigate |
| 中文释义 |
激发（及物动词） |
| 英文释义 |
(transitive verb) To actively urge or cause drastic action. |
| 例句 |
EXAMPLE: Confident and outspoken, our new young company president seeks to instigate many significant changes at our old and very traditional institution. 公司年轻而自信的新总裁想在我们这家老迈而非常守旧的机构里激起很多重大的 变革。 |
今日短语：
| 短语 | to build castles in the air |
| 中文释义 |
异想天开 |
| 英文释义 |
To cherish extravagant hopes and unrealistic plans that will never succeed. |
| 例句 |
EXAMPLE: My dreamy son needs to study for a serious profession and work hard if he wants to succeed, rather than just build castles in the air. 我的爱梦想的儿子必须去学习，从事一份正经职业，如果想成功，他得努力工作，而不能异想天开。 |
