Incentive
[ɪn'sentɪv] or [ɪn'sɛntɪv]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
(a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
(n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
塞西尔手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Incitement, inducement, stimulus, impulse, spur, provocative, goad, motive, cause, encouragement.
校對:凯特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Inducement, excitation, rousing, motive, stimulus, spur
ANT:Discouragement, warning, dissuasive, prohibition, deterrent
哈里森校對
解釋/意思:
adj. inciting encouraging: (Milt.) igniting.—n. that which incites to action or moves the mind: motive.
校對:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- And to the parents themselves, as to other animals, the sight of their young ones will prove a great incentive to bravery. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The greatest incentive in modern times to the production of inventions is governmental protection. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Governmental Protection the Greatest Incentive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I have often felt that Mr. Edison got himself purposely into trouble by premature publications and otherwise, so that he would have a full incentive to get himself out of the trouble. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Hughes was rescued from destruction, and has become the property of the Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn, to whose thousands of technical students it is a constant example and incentive. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There is also the effect on the parents, with whom, as with other animals, the presence of their young ones will be the greatest incentive to valour. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And so was added a further incentive to the adventure. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- There was an attempt to abolish _profit_ altogether, the rude incentive of most human commerce since the beginning of society. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- No other art was spurred to activity by such strong incentives, and none received the same encouragement and reward for its development. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Joy, mirth, vanity, and kindness are all incentives to this desire; as well as music, dancing, wine, and good cheer. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
校對:佩德罗