| 词组 | incentive |
| 释义 | incentive When incentive is used with a preposition, it is usually to: • And these lucky chances had been no incentive to further effort —H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through, 1916 • ... add that terrible but effective incentive to greater effort: fear of losing a job —New Republic, 19 Sept. 1949 • This of course provides an incentive to make the next release particularly interesting —Chris Albert-son, Saturday Rev., 27 Nov. 1971 Less often but still quite commonly, incentive is used with for: • That eliminated the incentive for judicial tests of legality —Irving Brant, New Republic, 20 Dec. 1954 • ... reducing the incentives for South Africans, Israelis and Pakistanis to use nuclear weapons —James Fallows, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 26 June 1983 Incentive also occasionally is used with toward: • ... rivermen provided the first incentive toward establishing a settlement here —American Guide Series: Pennsylvania, 1940 When the prepositional phrase specifies the incentive, the preposition is, naturally enough, of: • ... the Nipmucks and Valley Tribes only needed the incentive of Philip's arrival to take up the tomahawk —Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion, 1949 • ... the old incentive of competition —S. P. B. Mais, The English Scene To-day, 2d ed., 1949 |
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