| 释义 |
motivator|ˈməʊtɪveɪtə(r)|
[f. motivate v. + -or 2 c.]
Something or someone that initiates, or is a stimulus to, action or behaviour.
1943Mind LII. 124 The hypothesis that the prime motivators, such as hunger, thirst, pain-avoidance, and sex, are the driving power, the source of energy behind the whole infinitely complex pattern of socio-psychological behaviour. 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 41 Meaningless pseudo-knowledge has at all times been one of the principal motivators of individual and collective action. 1958Listener 18 Sept. 414/2 Sex is clearly vitally associated with survival and is a primary motivator. 1959Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation 17 Television is now the main motivator of the increased output of animation. 1972M. Argyle Social Psychol. of Work ix. 241 Herzberg and his colleagues concluded that ‘motivators’ (achievement, etc.) mainly affect satisfaction. |