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单词 Stick and carrot
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Stick and carrot

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Carrot and stick

Carrot and the stick
Boardman Robinson cartoon using the carrot on a stick metaphor. An anti-war cartoon, it depicts Death enticing an emaciated donkey towards a precipice with a carrot labeled

The "carrot and stick" approach (also "carrot or stick approach") is an idiom that refers to a policy of offering a combination of rewards and punishment to induce behavior. It is named in reference to a cart driver dangling a carrot in front of a mule and holding a stick behind it. The mule would move towards the carrot because it wants the reward of food, while also moving away from the stick behind it, since it does not want the punishment of pain, thus drawing the cart.

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