Motive
['məʊtɪv] or ['motɪv]
解释:
(adj.) causing or able to cause motion; 'a motive force'; 'motive power'; 'motor energy' .
编辑:摩尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That which moves; a mover.
(n.) That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
(n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
(n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
(a.) Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
(v. t.) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
录入:罗莎莉
同义词及近义词:
n. Inducement, incentive, impulse, incitement, stimulus, prompting, influence, reason, ground, principle, consideration, cause, occasion, prime mover, why and wherefore.
安格斯校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Inducement, purpose, design, prompting, stimulus, reason, impulse, incitement
ANT:Execution, action, effort, deed, attempt, project, preventive, deterrent,dissuasive
整理:特蕾西
解释:
adj. causing motion: having power to cause motion.—n. that which moves or excites to action: inducement: reason.—v.t. to act on as a motive instigate.—v.t. Mō′tivāte to act on as a motive induce.—n. Motivā′tion.—adj. Mōtiveless.—ns. Mō′tivelessness; Mō′tive-power or -force the force acting upon a body so as to cause it to move; Motiv′ity power of producing motion: the quality of being influenced by motion.
杰米整理
例句:
- This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Start with your motive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- That's what bothers me--I can't put my hand on a motive. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- What can be the motive for such extraordinary conduct as that? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- But now it comes out: 'My motive for cautioning you is as follows. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- The engineer in telephony cannot increase his motive power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Stephenson saw that he must in some way increase the power of his engine if he was to provide a new motive power for the mines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- No motive was suggested. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Some virtuous motive, therefore, must be antecedent to that regard. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He proposed to use gunpowder gas as the motive power. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- As the question passed his lips, I penetrated the motive of the Indian's visit to my office at last! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- You have, no doubt, a personal motive for proceeding, into which it is not my business to inquire. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Whatever the motive, you want the best? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There's no motive, Mr. Holmes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- All the other enterprizes of the Spaniards in the New World, subsequent to those of Columbus, seem to have been prompted by the same motive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Could softer motives influence me? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Judge from this, what motives he had to run the risk which he actually ran. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- These are the motives which I have been pressing on you. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Most people have motives of some sort for their actions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The tangle of motives and facts and ideas was incredible. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I was not fond of pampering that susceptible vanity of his; but for once, and from motives of expediency, I would e'en soothe and stimulate it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I assure you I am in no danger of putting any strained construction on your motives. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The utility element is found in the motives assigned for the study, the liberal element in methods of teaching. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
编辑:内尔达