motive
n. 动机,主旨; (艺术作品的)主题,题材
adj. 运动的; 动机的; 发动的
Your motive for doing something is your reason for doing it.
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
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;
2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
1. causing or able to cause motion;
2. impelling to action;
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.