主动地
If you do something on your own initiative, you plan it and decide to do it yourself without anyone telling you what to do.
Some states acted under threat of litigation, and others on their own initiative.
Some students, on their own initiative, have started a series of discussions on race.
A week later he went humbly, and on his own initiative, to apologize to Marcia.
Acting on her own initiative, she arranged for a firm of cleaners to come to the house.
To be successful in this job, you have to be capable of working on your own initiative.
See also: initiative (JUDGMENT)