carrot and stick

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英语

其他形式

• stick and carrot

词源

源自两种驱赶运货动物的方式：用胡萝卜在前方吸引，和用棒子在后面抽打。

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名词

carrot and stick (複數 carrots and sticks)

1. (俗語) 胡萝卜和大棒，恩威并济，软硬兼施
   • 1876, Lord Blachford, “The Reality of Duty, as Illustrated by the Autobiography of Mr. John Stuart Mill”, 出自 The Contemporary Review，頁號 523:

     It was this carrot and stick discipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative.

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   • 1928, Joseph Montague with George Young, Freedom of the Seas，頁號 159:

     There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.

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   • 2000, Anne O. Krueger with Chonira Aturupane, The WTO as an International Organization，頁號 225:

     The proposal to use the world trade order as a source of carrots and sticks for the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.

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   • 2008, Paul Lendvai with Ann Major, One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy，頁號 227:

     the artful tactic of carrot and stick bore relatively plentiful fruit.

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异序词

• stick and carrot, stick-and-carrot