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

• Technicians were therefore able to provide both minimum and maximum ages for such motifs.
  因此技术人员能够得出这些作品的最低和最高年份。
• Willeke isolates and processes his motifs in a complex procedure of transfer and selection.
  威勒克利用复杂的转换和选择程序将他的主题隔离和加工。
• 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。
• 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。
• Motifs from traditional Chinese painting also end up in woven or printed fashion designs.
  传统中国画中的图案也被编织或印在时装设计中。
• These same Achaemenids also adopted Assyrian and Babylonian motifs for their monumental art, including the winged disc.
  同样是这些阿切曼尼人也采用了阿述和巴比伦的图案作为他们的纪念碑艺术，包括有翼的圆盘。
• 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 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。
• The elegant decorative motifs and certain figural elements reveal a Western influence.
  典雅的装饰图案和某些人物的内容揭示了西方的影响。
• This color-sensitive inventiveness leads to a variation of repetitions of form and motifs.
  此颜色敏感的发明导致了变化重复的形式和图案。