- 1nC2
/ɪnˈsentɪv/
Something, often money or another reward, that is offered to make a person want to do something or work harder.
誘因
複數 incentives
核心畫面
Picture something good placed where a person can see it, sitting just ahead of the work: a bonus if the team hits the target, a discount if you sign up this week, an extra day off for finishing the project early. It is not the pay for what you already did - it waits out in front, and its whole job is to make you want to move toward it.
可以想成有人把一樣好東西擺在你看得見的前方,就放在工作的前面一點:達標就有獎金、這週報名就打折、專案提早完成多放一天…更多收起
可以想成有人把一樣好東西擺在你看得見的前方,就放在工作的前面一點:達標就有獎金、這週報名就打折、專案提早完成多放一天假。它不是事後結算的酬勞,而是先擺在那裡的一個東西,作用就是讓你想朝它的方向動起來。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incentivenoun/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
- 1
Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
- I have no incentive to do housework right now.
- 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; […].
- 2
A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
- Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
incentiveadj/ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
- 1
Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
- Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.
- 2
Serving to kindle or set on fire.
- Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。