They were used as medicines to ward off diseases, and mixed into perfumes, incent.

它们被用作药物来抵御疾病，被混合在香水和起味剂中。

Incent, incentivise or to give an incentive?

incentivise还是to give an incentive ？

Awkwardly, though, incent has a rival, incentivise.

不过，让人尴尬的是，incent有一个竞争对手：incentivise。

It wasn't a fluke; a little later she used incent again.

这不是偶然；稍后她又用了一次incent。

So, application of stock option in a creative way to incent is very essential.

所以，对企业来讲，创造性的应用股票期权进行激励是必要的。

The Oxford English Dictionary answers the first clearly enough: incent is "apparently a back formation".

《牛津英语词典》非常明确地回答了前一问题。 ：Incent“明显是一个逆成词”。

Incent : in Africa, people had very little clean water. So they put dirty water in with the powder.

在非洲，当地的居民可获取的净水少得可怜，所以他们用不洁的水冲泡奶粉。

But we try to incent commenters to jump in here with little tag-questions at the end of a post, so what do you think?

但是，咱们来鼓励(incent)一下评论者们在本帖子后面提一些附加疑问句，你觉得用哪一个好？

I feel I need to find a good way to incent Gary to finish this project quickly – he's got a very low motivation level this month.

我想我得找个好方法激励一下加里，让他更快地完成这项工作。他这个月的工作热情很低。

All told, incentivise isn't going to be tripping off my tongue too often, but it's more legitimate to me than incent, and its brevity speaks in its favour.

总之，我不会常用incentivise的，不过我认为得它比incent更正统，简洁是它的优势。

'I'm trying to get CIOs to instill a mindset that you should always be looking beyond the horizon and incent people to bring forth ideas,' Mr. Gliedman said.

格利德曼说：我试图让CIO们形成一种心态，即应当永远将眼光放得长远，激励人们提出想法。

Seller (shareholder) can reach the purpose of reducing agency cost, incent and restrict the management, peel off assets and change public-owned departments to private departments.

卖方股东可以达到降低代理成本、激励和约束管理层、剥离资产和公营部门私有化的目的。

In order to incent himself and deviate from traditional calligraphy, he also joined 2005 senior calligraphy class which held by the training center of Chinese calligraphy society.

为了鞭策激励自己，也为了不偏离书法传统正道，又参加了中国书协培训中心举办的05届书法高级班学习。