n.(名词)

1. 动机，目的，动因，原因，原（动力）
2. 主题，主旨，宗旨，题材
3. 策源地
4. 【音乐】动机，乐旨
5. 设计的基本图样，基本色彩，基本花纹

adj.(形容词)

1. 发动的，运动的，起动的，推动的，原动的
2. 成为动机的，成为原动力的
3. 引起运动的，导致运动的
4. 不固定的

v.(动词)

1. 成为主题
2. 使产生动机，激起，激发，促动，促使

n.(名词)

1. [C]动机,目的 a cause of or reason for action

Noun:

1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;

   "we did not understand his motivation"
   "he acted with the best of motives"
   

2. a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

3. a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

Adjective:

1. causing or able to cause motion;

   "a motive force"
   "motive power"
   "motor energy"
   

2. impelling to action;

   "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"
   "motive pleas"
   "motivating arguments"
   

1.(行动的)动机，缘由
Yourmotive for doing something is your reason for doing it.

motive是什么意思

e.g. Police have ruled out robbery as amotive for the killing.
警方已排除因抢劫而杀人的可能。
e.g. ...the motives and objectives of British foreign policy...
英国外交政策的动机和目标

1. 动机 动机：二、动机 动机(motive)的原意是引起动作. 心理学上把引起个人行为、维持该行为并将此行为导向满足某种需要的欲望、愿望、信念等心理因素叫动机. 奥尔伯特(Allport)的价值观分类方法:经济型;审美型;社会型;政治型;宗教型.

2. 母题：在主题学的术语中,要数母题(motive)和主题(theme)这两个术语最容易混淆,并己引起较多的分歧. 围绕着母题和主题的定义欧美比较文学家至今都存在不同的观点. 在中文里,由于受英汉词典译文的影响,对motive和theme一般不作区分,

3. motive

3. 动因：[关键词]兼并与重组(M&A) 动因(motive) 协同效应 Q率 对赢者的咒语[摘要]首次公开募股(IPO)折价是金融市场上一种普遍存在的现象,根据面临信息不对称的对象不同,

4. motive

4.motive：motivation of the ideological and political education; 激励

Her prime motive was personal ambition.

她的主要动机是为了实现个人的志向。

I don't understand what his motive is.

我不知道他的动机是什么。

The police have excluded robbery as a motive for the murder.

警方已排除该谋杀案中有抢劫的动机。

Can we assign jealousy as the motive for the crime?

我们能否确定这一犯罪动机是出于嫉妒?

His sole motive was to make her happy.

他唯一的目的就是使她幸福。

This motive had been a stock-in-trade of medieval art.

这一主题是中世纪艺术所惯用的。

The water provides the motive power that turns the mill wheel.

水提供了转动轮子的动力。

In a case of murder, the police questioned everyone who might have a motive.

在谋杀案里，警察审问了每一个可能有谋杀动机的人。

The criterion for judging subjective intention or motive is social practice and its effect.

社会实践及其效果是检验主观愿望或动机的标准。

According to the order,Communist Jiang San motived the mass to fight against the Japanese army.they eradicated the enemy,and killed his brother Jiang Er,who was a traitor.

共产党员蒋三奉命加家乡发动群众开展武装斗争，最后消灭了当地日伪军，除掉汉奸，其兄蒋二。

His love of money is the only motive that drives him to work so hard.

爱钱是促使他努力工作的唯一动机。

There seemed to be no motive for the murder.

这起谋杀案看不出有什么动机。

I'm suspicious of his motives.

我怀疑他的动机。

the profit motive (= the desire to make a profit)

谋利的动机

I have an ulterior motive in offering to help you.

我主动提出要帮助你是有私心的。

an apparently motiveless murder'/attack

表面上没有动机的谋杀 / 袭击

motive power'/force (= for example, electricity, to operate machinery)

原动力

Police have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing.

警方已排除因抢劫而杀人的可能。

...the motives and objectives of British foreign policy...

英国外交政策的动机和目标

This study was done by the National Institutes of Health, not anybody with any ulterior motive.

这项研究是由美国国家卫生研究院来进行的, 所以并不会像有些调查一样存在着某些不可告人的动机.

The crime seemed to have been committed without motive.

这一罪案似乎并无作案动机.

motive power is, in quantity, invariable in nature, it is never either produced or destroyed.

原动力在数量上实质是不变的, 它绝不会产生也不会消失.

Her mother, she admitted, had another motive.

她承认, 她母亲怀有另一个目的.

This text continues to demonstrate the motive force of ship maximization of containerized transport - - Scale effect.

本文接着就集装箱运输船舶大型化动力 ― ― 规模效应,进行了进一步的论证.

Reform is the powerful motive force that urges social advancement.

改革是推动社会前进的强大动力.

The assailant, an unemployed Chinese man, killed himself after the stabbings, and his motive remains unclear.

持刀行凶者是一名中国无业男子, 他随后跳楼自杀, 其杀人动机尚不明了.

Their inner motive is to intimidate their partner into loving and supporting them.

内在动机是想胁迫配偶爱他们、支持他们.

Decoration was the most common motive for tattooing and that still holds true today.

装修是最常见的动机是为纹身,并仍维持至今.

The vast rural consumer market will become a strong motive force to promote China's economic growth.

广大农村消费市场将成为中国经济的强劲动力源之一.

All the evidence collected so far points to robbery as the motive of the crime.

到目前为止所搜集的全部证据说明,这一犯罪行为的动机是抢劫.

He had some motive in telling this fable.

他讲这寓言故事是有用意的.

Distinguish what motive actually swayed with him.

辨明实际上对他具有影响力的动机是什么.

No motive for the killing has yet been established.

还没有确定杀人动机.

Only the few men around the president understood his motive.

只有总统身边的几个人了解他的动机.

The police could not find a motive for the murder.

警察不能找到谋杀的动机.

Greed was his only motive for stealing.

贪婪是他盗窃的唯一动机.

She definitely had an ulterior motive in offering to help.

她主动提出帮忙,肯定有不可告人的动机.

The man privately admits that his motive is profits.

那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利.

1. I have established a motive.
   我已查明了这一动机。
2. The man reveals the hidden motives.
   这个人揭露了隐藏的目的。
3. The police could not find a motive for the murder.
   警察不能找到谋杀的动机。

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• Convection in the lower mantle..provides the motive force for continental drift.

  出自：Nature

• The French Revolution..found..its motive power in the intelligence of men.

  出自：fig.

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的motif，意为运动的。