motive

motive['məutiv]

• n.
  • 动机，(行动的)缘由；目的
  • (文艺作品的)主题，中心思想
  • (装饰、图案画等的)基调，基本图案；基本色彩
  • 【音乐】动机，乐旨
• adj.
  • 运动的；发动的；推动的；促进的；原动的
  • 成为…动机的
• vt.
  • 使有动机，使产生动机；构成(行为)的动机，激起(行动)；促动
• 近义词:

  incentive.inducement

• 短语:
  • leading motive
    • 【音乐】主导旋律，主题
    • 主要动机
  • mixed motives 不纯的动机

• nonimage area
• Windsor
• breath of life
• obliged
• -ade
• succeed the first go-off
• counterbalancing
• pile the pressure on
• sinklessly
• outskirt
• overtrain
• mellifluent
• hem ... in
• incubuses
• dog tags
• semiferal
• pillow talk
• kriegie
• a window on the world
• plus one
• jerk off
• take sb’s eyes off
• lords-and-ladies
• Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry
• whydah (bird)
• telegraph emission
• sharp-freezing
• feast away
• sublimation
• cup your hand(s)
• liken to
• multiplicator
• Dover's powder
• force sth out of sb
• basketfishes
• caudicle
• Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse
• florescence
• sluggishness
• supermolecular
• USITC
• lingual nerve
• orphaner
• keratinizied
• crystal microphone
• Snovian
• jestingly
• chargeable
• diploids
• praisless
• pro fanities
• maiden speeches
• orange force
• dance after
• bounce cast
• come on the scene
• wave depth
• bring something home to
• header label
• Aussie
• tachyauxetic
• politicides
• go according to plan
• spearfishermen
• secondary
• for（或 on）hire
• business fluctuation theory
• Net shopping
• sleekly
• transmutably
• rhythmical
• swobs
• creatoxin
• instrumentalizations
• Samsun
• flock bed
• make sth out
• additive group
• on tenterhooks
• fling out
• familial dysautonomia
• -ness
• the presentation of credentials
• glycerokinase
• dyna-
• delvest
• interior orientation
• white leads
• scrunge
• H and I
• kiss one's hand to
• lit
• Apeldoorn
• absorptiometers
• better oneself
• depéche
• vacuum freeze dryer
• hard-shell crab
• fire insurance
• sneakered