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n. 动机，目的；主题
adj. 发动的；成为动机的
vt. 使产生动机，激起
n.
动机，主旨；（艺术作品的）主题，题材；
adj.
运动的；动机的；发动的；
vt.
促使；
变形
复数：motives
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]动机,目的 a cause of or reason for action
英英释义
motive[ 'məutiv ]
n.
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
"he acted with the best of motives"
同义词：motivationneed
a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
同义词：motif
adj.
causing or able to cause motion
"a motive force"; "motive power"
同义词：motor
impelling to action
"motive pleas"
同义词：motivative(a)motivating
词组短语
motive force动力；起动力，原动力
motive power动力
ulterior motive隐秘不明的动机
profit motive利润动机
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
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。
用作形容词(adj.)
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。
用作及物动词(vt.)
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。
权威例句
The achievement motive.The Strategic Bequest Motive
Ion motive ATPases. II. Energy coupling and work output
Self-Efficacy: An Essential Motive to Learn.
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Risk Reduction as a Managerial Motive for Conglomerate Mergers
Life change, the sensation seeking motive, and psychological distress.
The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
Possible molecular mechanisms of the protonmotive function of cytochrome systems.
Remarks upon water wheels, and upon some prevailing errors respecting the application of water as a motive power
motive (n.)
mid-14c., "something brought forward," from Old French motif "will, drive, motivation," noun use of adjective, literally "moving," from Medieval Latin motivus "moving, impelling," from Latin motus "a moving, motion," past participle of movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Meaning "that which inwardly moves a person to behave a certain way" is from early 15c.
motive (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French motif "moving" or directly from Medieval Latin motivus "moving, impelling," from past participle stem of movere "to move" (see move (v.)).
1. Jealousy was assigned as motive for the crime.
把这一犯罪行为的动机归因于忌妒。
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2. The man privately admits that his motive is profits.
那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
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3. When we speak, that is - -entirely and exclusively and without any other motive- for communication, except for one thing that the Russian formalists in particular took note of.
当我们开口说话,那是完全地专门地为了交流-,没有任何其它动机，除了一件事,也就是俄国形式主义者特别注意的。
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4. What’s your motive?
你的动机在那里？
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5. I understand the motive and goal to control crime.
我了解他们控制罪案的动机和目的。
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6. The male exhibits the global male tendency not to talk to the females—or, rather, not to include them in the conversation—unless there is some obvious sexual motive.
男人表现出一种全球的男性倾向，不和女性交谈——或者更确切地说，不将女性纳入谈话——除非他们有明显的性动机。
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7. In so doing, we may feel better, but we now have no motive to look at causes and correct for the issues that may be impairing our health, thus increasing our "need" for more medications over time.
这样做，我们可能会感觉更好，但我们没有动机去寻找原因和解决可能会损害我们的健康的问题，随着时间的推移从而提高了我们对更多药物的“需要”。
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8. Once you determine the motive of the speaker, can you react more smoothly to their words.
只要你确定了说话的人的目的，你就能对他们的话作出更快的反应。
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9. It appears the motive behind that particular murder was that her significant other did not want children and she wanted to be with him.
这场特殊的谋杀的动机可能是因为她的另一半不想要孩子，而她却希望能和他在一起。
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10. But what would have been the British motive for removing the body?
然而英国人转移拿破仑尸体的动机到底是什么呢？
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11. There is reason to believe the motive is political.
有理由相信这种攻击是出于政治动机。
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12. The terrible thing is that the motivebehind all this supervision of the individual is a good motive, and a rationalone. How is any ruler to maintain a social order without it?
令人感到恐怖的是所有这些针对个人的监控措施都是出于一个良好和理性的动机：没有这个监控体系，统治者该怎样维持一个社会的秩序呢？
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13. Her motive was to make some money and a cup on a silver mount.
她的动机是想挣点钱和得到一个戴银底座的奖杯。
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14. If that is the case, there is a motive and likely suspects for her murder.
如果这是真的，那么此案将会有新的犯罪嫌疑人与作案动机。
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15. To him the motive, method and meaning of your work matters more than the money.
对他来说，你的工作动机、工作方法、工作意义要远比你所赚的钱来得重要。
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16. Mankind have therefore a new motive of uniting; and a fourth law ofnature results from the desire of living in society.
互相结合的这另一种动机的存在，产生了人类对群居生活的渴望，这就是自然法的第四法则。
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17. They had no motive, but they were convinced the fire had been set.
他们没有动机，但是却确信这场火灾是人为所致。
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18. Still, I sympathize with one motive behind naturalism — the aspiration to think in a scientific spirit.
尽管如此，我还是支持自然主义背后的一个动机——用科学精神来思考的渴望。
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19. Branscum, Hill, and Lindsey simply had no motive to hide from the government a legal cash withdrawal that would be a matter of public record in less than a month.
很简单，布兰斯科姆、希尔和林赛没有动机向政府隐瞒一次合法取现，因为在不到一个月的时间里，它将成为一个公开的记录。
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20. Indeed, in a study of anger, the most common motive for its generation was to assert authority or independence, or to improve self image.
事实上，在一个研究生气的报告显示，生气产生最多的动机是坚持权威或独立、或者是完善自己的形象。
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21. Indeed, in a study of anger, the most common motive for its generation was to assert authority or independence, or to improve self image.
事实上，在一个研究生气的报告显示，生气产生最多的动机是坚持权威或独立、或者是完善自己的形象。
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22. diagnose the underlying motive
探询真实情况
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
23. His real motive for the crime remains obscure.
他犯罪的真正动机仍不清楚.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
24. His sole motive was to make her happy.
他惟一的目的就是使她幸福。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
25. He had some motive in telling this fable.
他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
26. For many years the motive power of trains was steam.
好多年,火车的动力是蒸汽。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
27. a subconscious motive
下意识的动机
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
28. Prompted by some obscure motive he would lure his victims into this room.
在某种模糊的动机的促使下，他把他的受害者们引诱到这间屋里。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
29. an underlying motive
潜在的动机
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
30. arrogate an ulterior motive to a person
擅自认为某人别有用心 [居心叵测]
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
31. Can we assign jealousy as the motive for the crime?
我们能否确定这一犯罪动机是出於嫉妒?
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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