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

• 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。
• American Dream is one of the most important motifs of American literature.
  美国梦是美国文学最重要的母题之一。
• The passage and chamber stones are also richly engraved with spiral, lozenge and zigzag motifs.
  走廊和内厅的石头上也被刻上了丰富的螺旋形、菱形和锯齿形的图案。
• Bold patterns based upon cultural themes and motifs.
  建立在文化主题和格调基础之上的大胆式样。
• 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。
• Motifs presented are not clues in solving Fang's paintings, as vagueness itself is deliberately the fundamental metaphor.
  方力钧没有替画作提供主题，因为他有意令内容含糊用作根本性的比喻。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, the artist has extended his interest in philosophy by developing his own conceptual and visual vocabulary, motifs which he finds central to western philosophy.
  通过发展自己的概念词汇和视觉词汇&那些他认为对西方哲学最为重要的主题，他延伸了对哲学的兴趣和关注。