| 单词 | motivate |
| 释义 | motivate (once / 1043 pages) v To give someone the incentive to act in a certain way is to motivate that person. If you give your dad a food-processor for his birthday, you might motivate him to help out with the cooking. The verb motivate means to prompt or incite. By giving speeches on college campuses across the country, John F. Kennedy motivated a lot of young people to join the Peace Corps in the early 1960s. People are not always motivated in positive ways, however. When a crime is described as racially motivated, it means the perpetrators picked their victim because of the color of his skin. WORD FAMILYmotivate: motivated, motivates, motivating, motivation, motivator+/motivated: unmotivated/motivation: motivational, motivations/motivational: motivationally/motivator: motivators/motive: motivate, motiveless, motively, motives, motivity/motiveless: motivelessly USAGE EXAMPLES“A measurement is just a number. But a visual image of what they look like, rather than their imagination, is much more motivating.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) He said that he was motivated by a sense of instability because of the threat of terrorism and the conflict in Ukraine. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Pickens’ lawyers argue that even if all the allegations are true, none of her comments were racially motivated. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) v give an incentive for action Syn|Hyper actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel affect, impress, move, strike have an emotional or cognitive impact upon movearouse sympathy or compassion in cause, do, make give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally |
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