motifs

英 [məʊˈtiːfs]

美 [moʊˈtifs]

n.  装饰图案; 装饰图形; (文学作品或音乐的)主题， 主旨， 动机
motif的复数

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”。

双语例句

• Later covers are slicker and racier near naked women, gleaming guns and glimmering diamonds are popular motifs.
  后来的封面更是风度翩翩，挑逗性的近乎赤裸的女郎，闪光的枪支和闪烁的钻石成了流行的主题。
• In large-scale installations and gunpowder drawings, Cai relies increasingly on ferocious and heroic animal motifs.
  在大型的装置和火药画中，他越来越依赖凶猛和英勇的动物图像。
• This separate yarn control provides great freedom for the fabric designer BEcause large, intricate motifs can BE transferred to fabric.
  这种对纱线的单独控制给织物设计人员带来了较大的自由，因为大的复杂的花纹可以利用织物表现出来。
• The exterior is engraved and applied with platinum-mounted rose-diamond motifs and the egg sits on a detachable rock-crystal base.
  内部刻有精美的冰晶雕刻，外部则镶有白金，上面嵌着玫瑰形钻石。彩蛋摆放在一个可以拆卸的水晶底座上。
• The classification of strand-loop-strand motifs in proteins
  蛋白质中strand-loop-strand模体的分类
• This sequel to Mandino's1967 self-help classic features the same amalgam of biblical motifs and secular values as its predecessor.
  本续集曼狄诺1967自助典型特征相同汞合金圣经图案与世俗价值观，其前身。
• This exhibition will focus on decorative motifs from nature and the four seasons as used in furniture and scholar's objects.
  此次展览的主题是古典家俱及文人小件中对自然及四季的刻画。
• Furniture made by ( or in the style of) Thomas Chippendale; graceful outlines and Gothic motifs and massive rococo carvings.
  托马斯·齐本德尔设计（或此种风格的）家具；有着优雅的轮廓、哥特式图形和大量洛可可雕刻。
• In which the motifs of decoration are borrowed from flora and fauna.
  在该图案的装饰都是借来的，由动植物。
• Archetypal criticism refers to the investigation and analysis of archetypal and mythical narrative patterns, character types, themes and motifs in literature and their recurrence in literature.
  原型批评指的是对文学中原型的与神话的叙事模式、人物类型、主题与母题，或是对这些因素在文学中的复现进行的研究分析。