proactive

表示“主动预先行动”的形容词：在问题发生或变化到来前，就采取措施加以应对或预防。

💡 记忆钩子

把它想成“提前一步站到问题前面”：不是等麻烦出现后再反应，而是先观察可能的变化，主动准备、预防和处理。

📝 学习建议

不要把 proactive 只理解成“积极”或“主动”；它特别强调“提前行动、预先防范”，与事后应对相对。

📖 中文释义

adj

core 主动预先应对

📖 指预见到可能出现的变化、困难或问题，并在它们真正发生前主动采取行动，目的是减轻影响或防止问题出现。它的核心不是单纯反应快，而是把行动提前。

💡 常用“take a proactive approach/stance”表示“采取主动预防的做法”，也常说“be proactive about + 事项”。它既可以修饰人和态度，也可以修饰措施、计划等；不要把“proactive”理解为事情发生后的及时反应，那更接近“reactive”。

The team took a proactive approach and fixed the system before customers noticed the problem.

团队采取了主动预防的做法，在顾客发现问题前就修好了系统。

She is proactive about keeping her skills up to date.

她会主动提前更新自己的技能。

more proactive comparative most proactive superlative

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 2 组

(of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens

同义词集: proactive

近似: active

descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently;

同义词集: proactive

proactive inhibition

proactive interference

反义: retroactive

🌳 词源

由 pro-（向前、在前）和 active（主动的、积极行动的）构成；最初用于心理学和技术语境，后来进入日常英语。

From pro- + active; originally coined 1933 by Paul Whiteley and Gerald Blankfort in a psychology paper, used in technical sense. Used in a popular context and sense (courage, perseverance) in 1946 book Man’s Search for Meaning by neuropsychiatrist Viktor Emil Frankl, in the context of dealing with the Holocaust, as contrast with reactive.

🔄 变式

more proactive compar most proactive superl

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