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

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

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，

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Mortgage servicers,lenders and borrowers will receive incentive payments for the success of restructured loans.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

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。

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"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

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。

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"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

Both firms have an incentive to undercut the other firm, driving down profits for both.

每个企业都有削弱对手的动机,最后他们的利润都下降了

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

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

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

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。

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"I'm up to $375 so far." OhioHealth Wellness spokeswoman Lisa Meddock says half of the 9,000 employees at the company's five hospitals have signed up for the incentive program since it began in 2006.

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

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