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incentive

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n. 动机；刺激
adj. 激励的；刺激的

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Lack of incentive for investment.

But with that policy now being abolished, this holiday incentive is no longer necessary, the government says.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.

Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

It's always more of an incentive if you're doing it with other people, she says.

If farmers like Bowman are able to use these seeds without paying the designated fee, it will remove the incentives for companies like Monsanto to innovate.

And there is, to date, only the flimsiest（脆弱的）of publicly-funded health care and pension systems, which increases incentives for individuals to save while they are working.

Providing fewer incentives (or saving

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

Financial incentives ensure companies meet specific revenue goals

A small gasoline tax would help free America from its dependence on oil imports and create incentives for green energy development.

But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care.

"It's always more of an incentive if you're doing it with other people," she says.

All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court.

Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive to graduate players.

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods.

If you want something to be done, then their staff do not have so much incentive to help you because he's a worker for the government.

They have an incentive to keep us hooked.

Governments' incentive to require producers to take responsibility for the packaging they produce is usually based on money.

In many countries the concept of extended producer responsibility is being considered or has been put in place as an incentive for reducing waste.

Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside, there’s plenty of incentive to ditch print.

By the date of his birth Europe was witnessing the passing of the religious drama, and the creation of new forms under the incentive of classical tragedy and comedy.

Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside, there's plenty of incentive to ditch print.