There seemed to be no motive for the murder.
这起谋杀案看不出有什么动机。
牛津词典
I'm suspicious of his motives.
我怀疑他的动机。
牛津词典
the profit motive (= the desire to make a profit)
谋利的动机
牛津词典
I have an ulterior motive in offering to help you.
我主动提出要帮助你是有私心的。
牛津词典
an apparently motiveless murder/attack
表面上没有动机的谋杀 / 袭击
牛津词典
motive power/force (= for example, electricity, to operate machinery)
原动力
牛津词典
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
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.
期刊摘选
The crime seemed to have been committed without motive.
这一罪案似乎并无作案动机.
期刊摘选
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.
辞典例句
Her mother, she admitted, had another motive.
她承认, 她母亲怀有另一个目的.
期刊摘选
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.
期刊摘选
Reform is the powerful motive force that urges social advancement.
改革是推动社会前进的强大动力.
期刊摘选
The assailant, an unemployed Chinese man, killed himself after the stabbings, and his motive remains unclear.
持刀行凶者是一名中国无业男子, 他随后跳楼自杀, 其杀人动机尚不明了.
期刊摘选
Their inner motive is to intimidate their partner into loving and supporting them.
内在动机是想胁迫配偶爱他们、支持他们.
期刊摘选
Decoration was the most common motive for tattooing and that still holds true today.
装修是最常见的动机是为纹身,并仍维持至今.
期刊摘选
The vast rural consumer market will become a strong motive force to promote China's economic growth.
广大农村消费市场将成为中国经济的强劲动力源之一.
期刊摘选
All the evidence collected so far points to robbery as the motive of the crime.
到目前为止所搜集的全部证据说明,这一犯罪行为的动机是抢劫.
《简明英汉词典》
He had some motive in telling this fable.
他讲这寓言故事是有用意的.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
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.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
No motive for the killing has yet been established.
还没有确定杀人动机.
《简明英汉词典》
Only the few men around the president understood his motive.
只有总统身边的几个人了解他的动机.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
The police could not find a motive for the murder.
警察不能找到谋杀的动机.
《简明英汉词典》
Greed was his only motive for stealing.
贪婪是他盗窃的唯一动机.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
She definitely had an ulterior motive in offering to help.
她主动提出帮忙,肯定有不可告人的动机.
《简明英汉词典》
The man privately admits that his motive is profits.
那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Thecompany claims its motives are essentially public-spirited.
出自-2011年12月阅读原文It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.
出自-2009年考研翻译原文One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.
出自-2010年考研翻译原文Bob Herz, the FASB’s chairman, cried out against those who “question our motives.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文Such measures have a couple of uplifting motives.
出自-2016年考研阅读原文"we did not understand his motivation"
"he acted with the best of motives"
"a motive force"
"motive power"
"motor energy"
"it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap
"motive pleas"
"motivating arguments"
