incentive
英语[编辑]
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。
发音[编辑]
名词[编辑]
incentive (复数 incentives)
- 刺激,诱因
- I have no incentive to do housework right now.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
- 2013年6月7日,David Simpson,“Fantasy of navigation”,出自 w:The Guardian Weekly[1],卷号188,期号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; […].
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 奖励,报酬
- Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
反义词[编辑]
衍生词[编辑]
派生词[编辑]
- → 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 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […],London:Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
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
异序词[编辑]
加利西亚语[编辑]
动词[编辑]
incentive
拉丁语[编辑]
形容词[编辑]
incentīve
葡萄牙语[编辑]
动词[编辑]
incentive
西班牙语[编辑]
动词[编辑]
incentive