BEC高级真题短语解析：“Keep sb on board”

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Keep sb on board：If you had a team of good workers who worked well together, like the crew of a ship, you would want to keep the team together so would want to keep them all on board.（将某人融入到团队、使某人忠于职守）

例句：Effective leader can keep everyone on board when they want to make innovations. So often these don't get off the ground because of lack of leadership, because after all, our response to change is significantly affected by how it's introduced. { 例句出处：《剑桥BEC高级真题集第二辑：P73》}

翻译：高效的领导者能够带动所有人开展创新工作。很多时候这些工作因为缺乏领导力而无法开展，因为从根本上讲，我们对于变化的反应在很大程度上来源于这种变化是如何被提出。

“keep sb on board”相关短语“take sth on board”：

Take sth on board：to understand or accept an idea or a piece of information, if sb say that "'I take on board what you say'--they mean that they have taken notice of what you said“. （接受某件事情或某种观点）

例句：There seem to have been so many changes already this year… it's hard to keep up, to keep taking things on board. The CEO's nothing if not dynamic, that’s for sure!

翻译：看起来今年发生了很多的改变…让人应接不暇，难以接受。作为CEO，如果不能灵活应变，那就什么都不是，这是肯定的！