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词汇 motif
释义 motif
noun[ C ]
uk /məʊˈtiːf/ us /moʊˈtiːf/

motifnoun[C] (PATTERN)


a pattern or design: 图案,式样
We chose some curtains with a flower motif.我们选择了一些带花卉图案的窗帘。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Patterns and shapes
amorphous
arabesque
argyle
asymmetrically
asymmetry
fishhook
flecked
formless
formlessly
fretted
scalloped
scissor
semilunaris
shapeable
shaped
wavery
wavily
weave
willow pattern
zigzag

motifnoun[C] (IDEA)


an idea that is used many times in a piece of writing or music: 中心思想,主题
The motif of betrayal is crucial in all these stories.在所有这些故事中背叛是至关重要的主题。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Technical music terms
acciaccatura
accidental
aeolian
aleatory
alto clef
antiphonal
discordant
harmonic
harmonic progression
harmony
hemidemisemiquaver
inversion
overtone
rubato
scherzando
scordatura
secco recitative
secondo
staccato
whole step

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Ideas, concepts and theories

motif | American Dictionary


motif
noun[ C ]
us/moʊˈtif/
a pattern or design:
We chose curtains with a flower motif.
art, literature, music
A motif is also an idea that appears repeatedly in the work of an artist or in a piece of writing or music.

Examples of motif


motif
Coiled-coil-like motifs are a distinguishing feature of a number of viral fusion proteins.
We analyzed occurrences of pair motifs of all combinations of amino acids separated by 1 to 10 residues.
Besides structural proteins of the cytoskeleton, the motor proteins that interact with them also contain coiled-coil motifs.
The actual binding motifs may be longer, we only need to capture the most significant region.
He asks, what evidence is there that the actions that workers took were determined by ideological motives of the left or right ?
The theoretical challenge is understanding how these mechanisms can be developed into complex motives in psychological experience.
Unfortunately, the neural systems related to aggression are not well understood, perhaps because such behavior can be called upon to serve several different motives.
The above discussion indicates that there are alternative motives for land tenure contracts in developing countries.
In addition, each strategy was a specific outworking of music analytical techniques, such as identifying motifs, harmonic progressions and overall structure.
By lesson 22 (of 30), the six-year-olds could perform two rhythmical motifs in two separate groups.
The likely motives were the desire to preserve and perpetuate the house name and maybe only a limited interest in social mobility.
Economics might encourage a move to town, but other motives might well point in the other direction.
Mercantilist motives can be discerned for this enactment.
He might assert that capitalist acts are rarely done from such motives.
The distinction between preference and duty does not coincide with the distinction between self-interested motives and motives that are not self-interested.
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Collocations withmotif


motif

These are words often used in combination with motif.

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architectural motif
Forming a ' ' friezelike procession,' ' the local women, peons and ' ' lounging ' ' youths are reduced to architectural motifs.
central motif
The role of visual imagery in making up for what diplomacy might not achieve is a centralmotif.
decorative motif
The configuration of six squares is repeated in the decorativemotif on the washstand doors.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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