incentive
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詞源[编辑]
借自中世紀拉丁語 incentīvus (“起調或定調”)，來自incinō (“起調”)，來自in- (“在”) + canō (“唱”)。該詞的形成似乎受到incendō (“放火”)的影響。
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incentive (複數 incentives)
- 刺激，誘因
- 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，頁號 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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- 獎勵，報酬
- Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
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- → 德語：Incentive
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incentive (比較級 more incentive, 最高級 most incentive)
- 煽動的，激勵的
- 起到點燃或引燃作用的
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 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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延伸閱讀[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