Incentive

(noun.) a positive motivational influence.

整理:莫尼卡

• And to the parents themselves, as to other animals, the sight of their young ones will prove a great incentive to bravery. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The greatest incentive in modern times to the production of inventions is governmental protection. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Governmental Protection the Greatest Incentive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I have often felt that Mr. Edison got himself purposely into trouble by premature publications and otherwise, so that he would have a full incentive to get himself out of the trouble. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Hughes was rescued from destruction, and has become the property of the Pratt Institute, of Brooklyn, to whose thousands of technical students it is a constant example and incentive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There is also the effect on the parents, with whom, as with other animals, the presence of their young ones will be the greatest incentive to valour. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And so was added a further incentive to the adventure. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• There was an attempt to abolish _profit_ altogether, the rude incentive of most human commerce since the beginning of society. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The onward flow of inventions may be interrupted, if not materially stayed, by the cessation of some of the causes and incentives which now give them life. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No other art was spurred to activity by such strong incentives, and none received the same encouragement and reward for its development. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Joy, mirth, vanity, and kindness are all incentives to this desire; as well as music, dancing, wine, and good cheer. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

校对:佩德罗