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

• 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。
• They were also displayed in the geometric patterns used in many temple motifs.
  很多庙宇的图形也展示出几何图案。
• 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 classification of strand-loop-strand motifs in proteins
  蛋白质中strand-loop-strand模体的分类
• 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。
• The Bronze Age rock carvings in Tanum represent a unique artistic achievement through their rich and varied motifs.
  青铜时代岩画在塔努姆代表一个独特的艺术成就通过其丰富多样的图案。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Nature, national traditions and national myths are three of Seamus Heaney's most important motifs.
  自然、民族传统与民族神话是爱尔兰诗人谢默斯。希尼最重要的主题。