motive的意思|motive的解释-里氏词典

motive ['motɪv]

n. 动机, 目的, 主题, 基调

a. 运动的, 成为动机的

[机] 开动的, 原动力的

motive

[ noun ]

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

<noun.tops>

we did not understand his motivation

he acted with the best of motives

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

<noun.communication>

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

<noun.artifact>

[ adj ]

causing or able to cause motion

<adj.all>

a motive force

motive power

motor energy

impelling to action

<adj.all>

it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function

motive pleas

motivating arguments

Motive \Mo"tive\, n. [F. motif, LL. motivum, from motivus
moving, fr. L. movere, motum, to move. See {Move}.]
1. That which moves; a mover. [Obs.] --Shak.

2. That which incites to action; anything prompting or
exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason;
inducement; object; motivation[2].

By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves,
excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether
that be one thing singly, or many things
conjunctively. --J. Edwards.

3. (Mus.) 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}. [Written also {motivo}.]

4. (Fine Arts) 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.

Syn: Incentive; incitement; inducement; reason; spur;
stimulus; cause.

Usage: {Motive}, {Inducement}, {Reason}. Motive is the word
originally used in speaking of that which determines
the choice. We call it an inducement when it is
attractive in its nature. We call it a reason when it
is more immediately addressed to the intellect in the
form of argument.

Motive \Mo"tive\, v. t.
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Motive \Mo"tive\, a.
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as,
a motive argument; motive power. ``Motive faculty.'' --Bp.
Wilkins.

{Motive power} (Mach.), a natural agent, as water, steam,
wind, electricity, etc., used to impart motion to
machinery; a motor; a mover.

DiMartino said Wright admitted to the three attacks he was charged with, but didn't have a clear motive.
If the test of bureaucracy is distance from the profit motive, the military forces qualify.
Police and Secret Service agents said Daughetee has no apparent motive for stalking Bush.
Police gave no motive for the slaying of Angela de Guerrero, 32. She was shot four times as she sat in her small sedan outside a supermarket in Bogota's northern suburbs by two gunmen who fled in a white car.
Police would not say what led them to arrest Hoppe, who had been a suspect during the original investigation, and gave no motive for the slaying.
"It would appear the way they were comfortable in this residence was going to come to an end and they would probably have to leave," Borrelli said in speculating that revenge was the motive.
Police gave no motive in the killings and declined to reveal the type of weapon used.
Do you really espouse the profit motive as the major determinant of the content of our limited broadcast capacities?
Meggs said he didn't know what motive was behind Mrs. Faircloth's plan.
"Contrary to speculation from certain quarters about MAI Basic Four's intentions, the only motive for MAI Basic Four's tender offer for Prime shares is to acquire Prime," LeBow wrote Wednesday to Prime president Anthony Craig.
"The family had been having some financial and personal problems of late, and that appears to be the motive," said Swanston.
The defense challenged Mrs. Palme's reliability more than three years after the event, and noted the lack of a motive, murder weapon or other forensic evidence to link Pettersson with the shooting.
Mr. Zacarias failed to demonstrate a political motive for resisting conscription, Justice Scalia wrote.
Shera'ie murdered the woman, her son and her daughter without any apparent motive, the newspaper said.
The alleged motive was to maximize the gain GAF would realize from the sale of its stake in Carbide.
Investigators had not determined a motive, he said.
Authorities could suggest no motive other than that Pough had a 1988 Grand Am repossessed by GMAC.
They have yet to establish a motive, but they believe Lawrence was slain by professional killers.
The spokesman didn't offer a motive for the confrontation.
Although there was general agreement here that the major motive for mergers is economic, there was a recognition that mergers were more than selfless efforts to make the economy function more efficiently.
Take away that big score motive, and the Air Force might have shlepped down to Sears and bought it for $2.49 and gotten a lifetime warranty to boot.
Prosecutors said jealousy was the motive for the killings and that Johnston had a sexual relationship with his stepdaughter.
He said authorities still have not determined the motive for the hijacking, partly due to trouble communicating with the Haitians, who speak only Creole and broken French.
He said he opened fire after a quarrel, but gave no other motive.
The other is that Zeneca can then afford to take on most of the debt of the old ICI, leaving new ICI to face the more volatile world of commodity chemicals with a clean balance sheet. There is another important motive for pressing on.
There were no arrests and the number of assailants and the motive were unknown, said police Capt.
The complaint did not give details on the new evidence or give a motive for the slaying, but Corbin said the state had amassed enough evidence to seek the death penalty.
"We don't know the motive at this time," said Deputy Police Chief Frank Reed.
Whatever the motive, the proliferation of chip types is confusing for the end-user, particularly because there is no agreed way of measuring performance. PC manufacturers will often quote a machine's 'Landmark' speed as an indication of performance.
There was no apparent motive in the shootings.

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