incentive
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词源[编辑]
借自中世纪拉丁语 incentīvus (“起调或定调”)，来自incinō (“起调”)，来自in- (“在”) + canō (“唱”)。该词的形成似乎受到incendō (“放火”)的影响。
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incentive (复数 incentives)
- 刺激，诱因
- I have no incentive to do housework right now.
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- 2013 6月 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, 出自 The Guardian Weekly[1], 卷 188, 期 26，页号 36:
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
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- 奖励，报酬
- Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
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- → 德语: Incentive
形容词[编辑]
incentive (比较级 more incentive，最高级 most incentive)
- 煽动的，激励的
- 起到点燃或引燃作用的
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版为 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
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延伸阅读[编辑]
- “incentive”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
- “incentive”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
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incentive
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incentīve
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incentive
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incentive