VOA常速英语:Book Cooks Up Recipe for Innovation

短语讲解：

1. Inspired by the message, Steven Johnson set out to identify the ideas and actions that foster creativity and lead to change.

set out着手, 开始
例句：The government has set out to make many needed reforms.
政府开始进行许多必要的改革。
lead to导致, 引起
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌。

2. According to Johnson, an entrepreneur, all of human progress depends on innovation and creativity.

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：All living things depend on the sun for their growth.
万物靠太阳生长。

3. “They end up generating new sounds, new ways of playing together they wouldn’t have gotten to otherwise," Johnson says.

end up结束; 最终成为〔变得〕
例句：He finally ended up his speech.
最后他结束了自己的讲话。

4. Johnson interviewed IDO co-founder Tom Kelley, who told him every Monday morning, the top managers get together for their weekly meeting.

get together集合，聚集
例句：He got them together to talk matters over.
他把他们召集一块儿来商量事情。

5. They also need to feel personally involved in what they are doing, that they find it in some way interesting, satisfying, enjoyable and personally challenging

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：She was involved in working out a puzzle.
她在聚精会神地解一道难题。

6. When people are in that mindset, they're much more likely to come up with new and useful ideas.

come up with (针对问题等)想出;提供
例句：He could not come up with a proper answer.
他想不出一个合适的回答。