Motives

例句/造句/用法:

• The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• Could softer motives influence me? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Judge from this, what motives he had to run the risk which he actually ran. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• She felt so free from ulterior motives that she took up his charge with a touch of resentment. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• These are the motives which I have been pressing on you. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• Most people have motives of some sort for their actions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• The tangle of motives and facts and ideas was incredible. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• 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. 簡·愛.
• Were it not, mere charity or friendship could be the only motives for lending. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• I assure you I am in no danger of putting any strained construction on your motives. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The utility element is found in the motives assigned for the study, the liberal element in methods of teaching. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Of course, he entered at this juncture, into no explanation of his motives, and they walked on very lovingly together. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• Various motives urged Bulstrode to this open-handedness, but he did not himself inquire closely into all of them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• The motives which led me from my country and my friends to a new world of adventure and peril are known. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If so, the authors of the _Iliad_ hid the motives of their characters very skilfully. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• Many of us are ready to grant that in the past men's motives were deeper than their intellects: we forgive them with a kind of self-righteousness which says that they knew not what they did. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• You put your own base construction on my motives. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The motives of those who supported this step were conflicting. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• In which-ever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions and thoughts. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• It was pitiable that he, who knew the mixed motives on which social judgments depend, should still feel himself so swayed by them. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Not then from motives of pure philanthropy? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• While I am in your service, Sir Percival, I said, I hope I know my duty well enough not to inquire into your motives. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• My position is defined--my motives are acknowledged. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• What your motives are, or what exact part you play in this strange business, I am not yet able to say. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• No motives but motives of sheer patriotism? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• Yet Archer was convinced that Madame Olenska had not accepted her grandmother's offer from interested motives. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.

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