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reward

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n. [劳经] 报酬；报答；酬谢
vt. [劳经] 奖励；奖赏

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The doer of a good deed can feel spiritually rewarded even when they gain no concrete benefits.

Golden Rule No.10 for a good life is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded.

They believe waiters deserve such rewards for good service.

The promise of rewards, for others.

The possibility of receiving an award also produces a state of hope—a state that is in itself psychologically rewarding.

The desire for a future reward is overwhelming.

Rewards do not have to be stuff, Cornetti says.

Rewards can be flexible working hours.

Or maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

Employees formed storm chaser teams and competed in storm-themed educational exercises to earn various rewards.

Companies, marketers and teachers have long looked for fun ways to engage people's reward-seeking or competitive spirits.

Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

Additionally, they should be allowed to teach, and be rewarded for doing it well.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

Reward all those involved in the debate sufficiently when the goals are reached.

The real reward of goof teaching is seeing students learn.

Guy Grant chose to work as a researcher at Cambridge in order to do financially more rewarding work.

do financially more rewarding work

This writing practice brings rewards that can't be seen in bank accounts, but only in the success of human relationships.

According to a new study from Cornell University's Food and BrandLab, small nonfood rewards—like the toys in McDonald's Happy Meals—stimulate the same reward centers in the brain as food does.

his father said he had offered his son 100 dollars as a reward.

Or Maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel."

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

Sustainable management of ecosystems will prove rewarding in the long run.

If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their enthusiasm and reduce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will reward them for high performance.

Even when children are not directly rewarded or punished for "behaving like boys" or "behaving like girls," they learn about gender by watching who does what in their families.

Reinforcement occurs when we receive direct or indirect rewards or punishments for particular gender role behaviors.

But in many cases, goals have economic rewards that make them more powerful.

Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power

As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists and producers.

Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish.

The male dolphin received more rewards.

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

In order to achieve a successful outcome or reward, some level of risk is almost always essential.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

Another is that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded.

Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.

Deliberate practice activities require effort, produce no immediate rewards, and are motivated by the goal of improving performance rather than the goal of enjoyment.

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For many who made it to Dawson, however, the rewards were worth the difficult trip.

For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.

How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?

However, if others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?

However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

News of delayed reward will induce the reader to prepare for the reality while news of immediate reward will lead the reader to withdraw from the reality.

News of delayed reward will make readers suffer, or present a threat to them.

News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual involvement.

News of the first kind pays its rewards at once.

News of the second kind, however, pays its rewards later.

Our own experience working together on health, development, and energy the last twenty years has been one of the most rewarding parts of our lives.

People expect to get rewards from reading news.

People select news in expectation of a reward.

People's efforts have been materially rewarded.

Peter gave the girl $300 as a reward.

She was highly rewarded for her efforts.

Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth tasking.

The author's mother rewarded him with books.

The researchers then tested how the monkeys combined—or added—the symbols to get the reward.

The students have been working hard on their lessons and their efforts will be rewarded success in the end.

Therefore, while the division of categories holds in general, an individual's tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another, or divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.

This reward may be either of two kinds.

Traveling along the old silk road is an interesting and rewarding experience.

When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work.

When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics.

Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.

Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality.

Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation of what is already known and believed.

Scientists need journals in which to publish their research, so they will supply the articles without monetary reward.