| 释义 | 
		- n.动机;目的;原因
 - adj.发动的;导致运动的
 - v.同“motivate”;成为(艺术作品的)主题
 - 网络动因;作案动机
 
 复数:motives  过去分词:motived  现在分词:motiving   adj.+n. ulterior motive,powerful motive,obscure motive,sinister motive v.+n. understand motive,question motive n. reason,cause,object,purpose,motivation 1.  | ~ (for sth) 动机;原因;目的a reason for doing sth  |  
  | There seemed to be no motive for the murder. 这起谋杀案看不出有什么动机。  |   | I'm suspicious of his motives. 我怀疑他的动机。  |   | the profit motive(= the desire to make a profit) 谋利的动机  |   | I have an ulterior motive in offering to help you. 我主动提出要帮助你是有私心的。  |  
 1.  | [obn] 发动的;导致运动的causing movement or action  |  
  | motive power/force(= for example, electricity, to operate machinery) 原动力  |  
 n.  |  |  adj.  | 1. 引起运动的,发动的,运动的;成为(行动的)动机的  |  v.  |  |  
 n.  | 1. the reason for doing something or behaving in a specific way  |  adj.  | 1. capable of causing or producing motion 2. tending to make somebody want or be willing to do something  |  v.  | 1. to make somebody want or be willing to do something  |  
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