"But," said Franz, in his turn interrupting his host’s meditations, "you had some motive for coming here, may I beg to know what it was?"

“但是，”这一次轮到弗兰兹来打断店主的沉思了。“你是有事才来的，请问是什么事?”

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"Still," persisted Franz, "I suppose you will allow that such men as Vampa and his band are regular villains, who have no other motive than plunder when they seize your person

“可是，”弗兰兹坚持说，“我想你大概也承认，象万帕和他的喽罗们这种人，可都是些流氓恶棍，当他们把你抢去的时候，除了绑票勒索以外，该没有别的动机了吧。

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"He is a philanthropist," answered the other; "and no doubt his motive in visiting Paris is to compete for the Monthyon prize, given, as you are aware, to whoever shall be proved to have most materially advanced the interests of virtue and humanity

“他是一个博爱主义者，”对方答道，“他访问巴黎的动机无疑是要去争取蒙松奖章,假如我有投票权而且能左右选举的话，我一定投他一票，并答应替他活动其他的选票。

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"I know not why you meddle," said Fernand, seizing his arm; "but this I know, you have some motive of personal hatred against Dants, for he who himself hates is never mistaken in the sentiments of others."

“我不知道这事究竟是否与你有关，”弗尔南多抓住他的手臂说，“但我知道，你对唐太斯也一定怀有某种私怨，因为心怀怨恨的人是决不会看错别人的情绪的。”

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When Liang Shaoji abandoned the urban life in Shanghai and came to the foot of Tiantai Mountains 38 years ago, his motive was very simple: for the abundant silk around local areas.

38年前，梁绍基放弃了上海的都市生活，来到天台山下。当年，让他来到台州的动机，只是这里是盛产蚕丝的地方，

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A motive for doing something is a feeling or desire within people which makes them act

motiv指想做某事的感觉或愿望

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Ah, maternal love is a great virtue, a powerful motive --so powerful that it excuses a multitude of things, even if, after duncan’s death, Lady Macbeth had been at all pricked by her conscience."

啊，母爱是一个大美德，一个强烈的动机，它是如此的强烈，以致于它可以使人做出许多事情来而心中却能坦然无愧，所以在邓肯死后，麦克白斯夫人失去了良心的慰藉，就万分痛苦了。”

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To impute a motive to someone

暗示某人有动机

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Distinguish what motive actually swayed with him.

辨明实际上对他具有影响力的动机是什么。

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Distinguish what motive actually swayed with him.

辨明一下实际上影响他的动机是什么。

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However intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphins with any motive of lifesaving

不管海豚科动物多么聪明，相信它们具有救生的动机可能是错误的。

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Don’t attribute such a motive to him.

不要把这样的动机加在他身上。

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The motive behind it is, indeed, very often purely economic rather than vindictive, but this does not ameliorate its harmful impact

采取这种办法主要是经济上的原因，而不是报复，但是这并没有改变它的损害程度。

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From a true motive of piety

出于真正的虔诚动机

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Innovation sustains the progress of a nation. It is an inexhaustible motive force for the prosperity of a country and the source of the eternal vitality of a political party.

创新是一个民族进步的灵魂,是一个国家兴旺发达的不竭动力,也是一个政党永葆生机的源泉。

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Infer a motive from an effect

从效果推知动机。

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The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious

篡改过去，眼前的好处自是一目了然，然而终极的动机却显得神神秘秘。

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Marine Studio biologists have pointed out that, however intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphins with any motive of life saving.

但是海洋摄影室的生物学家指出,不管海豚有多么聪明,要说它具有救人的动机那也许是人错误的论断。

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But deeper than this lies the original motive , the never-questioned instinct that first led to the seizure of power and brought doublethink, the Thought Police, continuous warfare, and all the other necessary paraphernalia into existence afterwards

但是最初引起夺取政权和后来产生双重思想、思想警察、不断战争、以及其它一切必要的附带产物的，还有比这更加深刻的原始动机，从不加以坏疑的本能。

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When a leader or a teacher seeks to influence a person by appealing to that person’s motive base, the implicit question is: to what specific motives is one appealing?

当一个领导者或导师想用触发某人基本动机的方法去影响这个人时，肯定会提出这样的问题:要触发他哪些动机

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Definition of the rated output of electric locomotives and motive power units

电力机车和电动车组额定功率的确定

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A minor error,such as a slip of the tongue,thought to reveal a subconscious motive .

动作倒错，失误动作一种如口误等被认为能揭示潜意识动机的小错误

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Predicate a motive to be good

断言某动机是好的

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She had the slightest inkling of her husband’s motive in obtaining this ticket

对她丈夫取得这张票的动机，她一无所知。

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So faith in Marxism was the motive force that enabled us to achieve victory in the revolution.

对马克思主义的信仰，是中国革命胜利的一种精神动力。

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Development requires that we trust and rely on the people who are the motive force for pushing forward the advance of history.

发展必须相信和依靠人民,人民是推动历史前进的动力。

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The judge inferred a motive from an effect

法官从结果中推知动机。

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The exchange of different cultures and the use of other countries’ civilization for reference form a motive force to promote the civilization and progress of humankind

各种文明之间的交流和借鉴是人类文明进步的动力。

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Under the real circumstances of the case…we must also imagine the perpetrator so vacillating an idiot as to have abandoned his gold and his motive together

根据本案的实际情况…我们势必认为凶手是三心二意的白痴，不但现成金币不拿，而且连原来的动机也忘了。

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I have already spoken about the dialectical materialist view of motive and effect

关于动机和效果的辩证唯物主义观点，我在前面已经讲过了。

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