incentive
外观
英語
[编辑]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。
發音
[编辑]名詞
[编辑]incentive (複數 incentives)
- 刺激,誘因
- I have no incentive to do housework right now.
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- 2013年6月7日,David Simpson,“Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly[1],卷 188, 期 26,頁 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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反義詞
[编辑]衍生詞
[编辑]派生詞
[编辑]- → 德語: Incentive
形容詞
[编辑]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”, in 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年,OCLC 800618302
- “incentive”,The Century Dictionary […],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,OCLC 867766587
異序詞
[编辑]加利西亞語
[编辑]動詞
[编辑]incentive
拉丁語
[编辑]形容詞
[编辑]incentīve
葡萄牙語
[编辑]動詞
[编辑]incentive
西班牙語
[编辑]動詞
[编辑]incentive