| 词组 | motive |
| 释义 | motive Motive is often followed by the preposition for, which is, in turn, often followed by a gerund: • Copernicus had no motive for misleading his fellow-men —George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 • ... had every motive for continued loyalty to Rome — Times Literary Supp., 30 July 1971 • ... motives for doing something are often not good reasons for doing it —Wayne C. Booth, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, 1974 Motive is also sometimes followed by of or behind: • ... the habit so prevalent with us of always seeking the motive of everyone's speech or behavior —W. C. Brownell, French Traits, 1889 • The Czechs at first suspected the purity of the mission's professed motive of helping them —Current Biography, May 1965 • One of these pits contained twenty-seven skulls.... The motive behind this peculiar burial is not clear —Raymond W. Murray, Man's Unknown Ancestors, 1943 And sometimes motive is followed by to and an infinitive: • This was sufficient motive to endanger the peace of the frontier —Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion, 1949 |
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