motive
motive 英 [ˈməʊtɪv] 美 [ˈmoʊtɪv]
n. 动机，目的 adj. 发动的；导致运动的
名词复数:motives
- Your reason for doing something is your motive. Your motive to go to school every day is to learn. Or maybe the thought of your parents' anger and a run-in with the truant officer is motive enough.
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- n. 动机，目的
- adj. 发动的；导致运动的
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1. There seemed to be no motive for the murder.
这起谋杀案看不出有什么动机。
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2. I'm suspicious of his motives.
我怀疑他的动机。
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3. the profit motive
谋利的动机
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4. an apparently motiveless murder
表面上没有动机的谋杀
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5. motive power
原动力
- 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" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away").
- 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" (from PIE root *meue- "to push away"). Meaning "that which inwardly moves a person to behave a certain way" is from early 15c.
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