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

• The facade of the temple is exquisitely decorated with plaster mouldings and murals of auspicious motifs.
  庙宇正面饰有精致的灰塑及壁画，寓意吉祥。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。