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
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- wallpaper with a flower motif
有鲜花图案的墙纸
- wallpaper with a flower motif
- (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.- ...a rose motif.
玫瑰图案
- ...a rose motif.
- N-COUNT 主题;中心思想
Amotifis a theme or idea that is frequently repeated throughout a piece of literature or music.- 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”。
- The motif of these volumes is that 'solitude is the richness of the soul, loneliness is its poverty.'
英英释义
noun
- a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme
- a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
双语例句
- 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。 - Reading Suicide& An Analysis of the Death Motif in The Golden Notebook
解读自杀&《金色笔记》中的死亡主题研究 - He says this is the motif of a grand symphony.
他说这就是盛大的交响曲的主旨。 - In terms of art, It's I guess, an old motif about presence and variations.
依照艺术而言,这是偶猜的,是一个关于存在和变化的一个旧主题。 - One side shows off mirror gun metal calfskin embossed with a motif evoking the facets of cut crystal.
一面镜子炫耀枪金属压花小牛皮与序引起了方方面面的水晶。 - This opera contains a love motif.
这出歌剧有个爱情主题。 - Love is an eternal motif in art and literature.
爱情是文学艺术中的永恒主题。 - The motif of betrayal and loss is crucial in all these stories.
背叛和痛苦的主题在所有这些故事中是极重要的。 - The performances are always given with an explicit motif.
这些演出经常有一个明确的主题。 - 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。