Volpp says incentive programs to help people stop smoking seem to work better than those focused on losing weight.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Why? Because no matter how the other firm, your competitor, prices you might have an incentive to undercut them.

为什么,因为不管你对手怎么定价,你总有想削弱他们的动机

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I think it should. I think illegal downloading undermines the incentive for the artist

我觉得应该。我觉得非法下载破坏了艺术家的激励，

不能非法下载 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"Without some form of market incentive,we believe it will be very hard for them to keep conserving these forests."

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

But I wonder what kind of, if this might even make a powerful incentive for military recruitment today.

但我很好奇想问哪一种，这是否仍可在今日的军人,召募中起强力的激励作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"And what incentive programs do is make it more favorable for you to overcome that tendency to procrastinate doing something now."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

And as an added incentive for you to pay attention, I'm going to warn you that this particular simulation will appear in the final or a variant of it.

作为提高你们注意力的激励，我要警告你们,这个特殊的仿真程,或者它的变种会再期末考试出现。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Volpp says more studies are needed to measure the real impact of incentive programs on obesity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The incentive for cheaper services are very strong, and in that sense, of course people will get hurt and there will be objections.

想要获取更低的价格,购买服务非常正常，因而自然会有人遭受打击,会有人反对外包。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He adds it is ratepayers, not taxpayers, who shoulder the cost of this renewable energy incentive, and any rate increases are "tough to swallow."

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

One is there's an incentive to cheat and another is that other firms are going to enter.

一方面大家都有违约的动机,另一方面会有新人加入

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

As an incentive, the company offers cash for cell phones, smart phones and older laptops.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

We have private equity, we have venture capital, and we have employees getting incentive options.

例如私人权益，风险投资，还有用于激励员工的期权工具。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"To be able to negotiate with the other side, at a bare minimum the other side has to have an incentive to talk to you.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

If we responded to all fires, he said, there would be no incentive to subscribe.

他说，如果我们见火就扑，那就没人会订我们的服务了。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He suggests incentive programs work best as part of a broader approach to wellness.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

At this level of abstraction, plainly there isn't all that much incentive to apply thinking of that kind, but on the other hand undoubtedly theory does exist for the most part to be applied.

就这门课程中理论的抽象程度而言，没必要把它,用于实践，但是在绝大多数情况下,理论无疑都是为了实践而存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It would have to climb higher to give consumers a financial incentive to switch.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

So we have extra incentive to get these clicker questions right.

所以，大家应该更有动力,把这些选择题答对。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Everyone wants to export to the United States and that creates a huge incentive for producers and exporters to be in compliance with the U.S.Lacey Act.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Just a little incentive.

这是一种奖励。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

So it really makes it more exciting." A growing number of U.S.companies are implementing such incentive oriented programs, either to help employees quit smoking or lose weight.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Serfs who are compelled to work the land, or in some places even slaves, well, they have no incentive, put aside the question even of capacity, to invest capital for the purpose of improving the size and quality of the their crops, their trees, their vines.

那些被强迫耕种土地的农奴,或者是那些在其他地方直接成为奴隶的人,刨除能动性因素,农场主们,没有任何理由投资钱财,去改善他们农作物,果树和葡萄,的种植规模和品质

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The idea is a joint government-manufacturer incentive plan to give consumers with old car trade-ins a $3,000 cash back deal on the purchase of any new car.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

The incentive in Washington is such that it's virtually impossible to cut spending unless you can go to the voters " and say "We don't have the money."

政府的机制就是这样,削减财政开支，几乎不可能,除非你有勇气对选民说,“政府没钱了“

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

That said,we're still not going anywhere fast." Despite an $8,000 tax incentive for first time home buyers, sales of existing homes have declined two months in a row.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Because Roman legal structures-- and they even said this in Roman laws-- if you're a judge and you have a rich man and a poor man in your court, of course you're going to decide for the rich man, because the poor man has incentive to cheat; he's poor. But the rich man already has money, he doesn't have any incentive to cheat.

因为罗马法律结构。。。,甚至罗马法律中就这么写着。。。,如果你是法官，一个穷人和一个富人，同时出现在法庭上，你当然会偏袒富人，因为穷人有欺骗的动机，贫穷;,而富人已经很有钱了，没有动机再去行骗。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And making sure that folks have the opportunity and incentive to save for a home or college, for retirement or a rainy day is essential to that effort,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

So basically, we're stuck with this verbal agreement and we both have an incentive to cheat and produce more whatever it is, sugar water.

但不管怎样,在这个口头协议不起作用,我们都有违约,生产更多这种糖水的动机

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

So, they had an unfortunate incentive to make bad loans.

因此他们投机取巧不断放出不良贷款

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选