motif

英 [məʊˈtiːf]

美 [moʊˈtiːf]

n.  装饰图案; 装饰图形; (文学作品或音乐的)主题， 主旨， 动机

复数：motifs　

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Collins.1 / BNC.4889 / COCA.6546

牛津词典

noun

• 装饰图案；装饰图形
  a design or a pattern used as a decoration
  1. wallpaper with a flower motif
     有鲜花图案的墙纸
• （文学作品或音乐的）主题， 主旨， 动机
  a subject, an idea or a phrase that is repeated and developed in a work of literature or a piece of music

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (作为装饰的)图形，图式
  Amotifis a design which is used as a decoration or as part of an artistic pattern.
  1. ...a rose motif.
     玫瑰图案
• N-COUNT 主题;中心思想
  Amotifis a theme or idea that is frequently repeated throughout a piece of literature or music.
  1. The motif of these volumes is that 'solitude is the richness of the soul, loneliness is its poverty.'
     这几卷的主题是“孤独是灵魂的财富，寂寞是灵魂的贫瘠”。

英英释义

noun

• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
  Synonym:motive
• a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
  1. it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme
  Synonym:theme
• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
  Synonym:motive

双语例句

• If you'll indulge for a moment my rhyming motif.
  如果你们迁就一下我押韵的主旨。
• He then stencilled the ceiling with a moon and stars motif.
  他随后用模版在天花板上印上了月亮和繁星图案。
• The cultural tolerance of this motif also reflects the rich connotation and the mutual complement of cultures in humanism as guiding ideology of the renaissance.
  这一母题的文化包容性反映出作为文艺复兴指导思想的人文主义之内涵的丰富性和文化互补性。
• Reliablity and validity are eternal motif of language testing.
  信度与效度是语言测试永恒的主题。
• The motif of the concert was also "Love lives in my family", including five chapters.
  音乐会的主题也是“爱住我家”，包括五个篇章。
• Study on Multiple Sequence Alignment and Motif Discovering in Bioinformatics
  生物信息学中的多序列比对与模体识别问题研究
• This opera contains a love motif.
  这出歌剧有个爱情主题。
• Three biblical and mythical motifs are embodied in Sula, namely the quest motif, the sacrificial scapegoat motif, and the rebirth motif.
  《秀拉》主要表现了三个圣经神话主题：追寻主题、替罪羊主题及再生主题。
• Wallpaper that had a motif of motorbikes and crash-helmets.
  印有摩托车和防护头盔图形的墙纸。
• This "coiled coil" wrapping motif is common in biology, particularly in signaling proteins.
  这种“卷曲螺旋”包装模式在生物学中常见，尤其是在信号蛋白中。