the profit motive

基本解釋

Our task is to take advantage of this historic moment to remove the profit motive in newsgathering.
我們要做的就是抓住這一歷史時刻，去除掉新聞采集中的利潤動機。
Now he claims that if they indeed did acquire substantial amounts of sub-prime exposure (and he says they did not), it was because of the profit motive and not to fulfill a social objective.
現在他宣稱如果他們確實要求相當數量的次貸要求（事實上他們并沒有），這是因為利潤的刺激而不是為了完成社會的目標。
He insists that he has enough not-for-profit providers: “We don’t need the profit motive, ” Mr Gove says flatly.
他堅稱，已有足夠多的非盈利提供商。他堅決地說，我們不需要利益的動機。

Now Mr. Milton took some risks when he separated himself from his cash and lent money to his clients, or lent more money to his clients than the collateral, the gold, was actually worth. And the motive for that risk, of course, the motive for that investment, was the expectation of a profit.
但是彌爾頓先生卻冒著把自己和他的現金,也丟了的風險，或者借出去的錢比擔保財產還要多，他這么投資的動機是，希望獲得收益。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

The profit motive—however ugly, sleazy or vulgar—unleashed the caged talents of millions of entrepreneurs.
ECONOMIST: The world after 1989
The poor would be puzzled to hear that the profit motive is in retreat.
ECONOMIST: But it also needs to have a price
Visionary companies that care about more than the profit motive are built to deliver on this need.
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利益動機
This part the "Super Girls" of the parties involved (Hunan Satellite TV, a large number of Super Girls, the majority of Super Girls fans and the mass media) and the profit motive.
這部分內容分析了“超級女聲”的參與各方(湖南衛(wèi)視、眾多超女、廣大超女迷以及大眾媒體)及他們的利益動機。