motive 的 3 个定义
- something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- the goal or object of a person's actions: Her motive was revenge.
- a motif.
- causing, or tending to cause, motion.
- pertaining to motion.
- prompting to action.
- constituting a motive or motives.
mo·tived, mo·tiv·ing.
- to motivate.
motive 近义词
reason, purpose
更多motive例句
- But, Google’s oblique communication about this change has left the door open for skepticism about its motives.
- Changing the name scheme of modern math might imply a change in motive force, but if that change discouraged some people, it might welcome others in.
- There are those who try to cloak their motives in the trappings of science by claiming they are taking the scientific posture of doubt.
- Poets, detectives, and lawyers have long sifted through people’s language for clues to look for their motives and inner truths.
- A national or global news story breaks, new keywords start trending immediately, and the first thing you think is…If the answer was “Ooo I can use this”, then you may not have the best motives for adding that current event to your content marketing.
- Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
- I think a misconception everybody has is that I had an ulterior motive.
- Did Michael Brown have a motive to violently attack the officer?
- The story remains mysterious, and authorities are not revealing a motive yet.
- Communist-era clerks were famously rude and indifferent, because they had no motive to make people happy.
- The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.
- Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.
- The wish to go to heaven without dying is, as I know, a motive derived from child-life.
- But her parents, did you never discover any thing about them—who or what they were—the motive of so strange an abandonment?
- Whatever was his motive, he persisted in his resolution, and to the end was faithful to his oath.